Herman Melville Moby-Dick
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Call me Ishmael Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write 'a mighty book about a mighty theme' and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of the Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history and a mass of information about whaling through the ages. This epic story, here presented in unabridged form, receives an equally epic reading from the outstanding American actor William Hootkins.
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Chapter 1: Loomings |
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But here is an artist |
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What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain… |
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Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag |
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Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort… |
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Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn |
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Crossing this dusky entry… |
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Presently a rioting noise was heard without |
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I now took the measure of the bench… |
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This account cleared up the otherwise… |
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Whether that mattress was stuffed… |
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I now screwed my eyes hard… |
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Chapter 4: The Counterpane |
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Now take away the awful fear… |
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Chapter 5: Breakfast |
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They say that men who have seen the world… |
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Chapter 6: The Street |
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Chapter 7: The Chapel |
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Chapter 8: The Pulpit |
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Chapter 9: The Sermon |
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‘With this sin of disobedience in him…’ |
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‘Now Jonah’s Captain, shipmates,…’ |
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‘Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his sou |
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But again he leaned over towards the people… |
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Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend |
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As I sat there in that now lonely room… |
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Chapter 11: Nightgown |
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Chapter 12: Biographical |
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Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow |
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At last, passage paid and luggage safe… |
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The schooner was run into the wind… |
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Chapter 14: Nantucket |
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Chapter 15: Chowder |
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However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen… |
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Chapter 16: The Ship |
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Now when I looked about the quarter-deck… |
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For a moment I stood a little puzzled… |
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Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say… |
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But one thing nevertheless… |
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But I had not proceeded far… |
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Chapter 17: The Ramadan |
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With a prodigious noise the door flew open… |
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Now as I before hinted, I have no objection… |
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Chapter 18: His Mark |
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So down we went into the cabin… |
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Chapter 19: The Prophet |
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‘Look here. Friend,’ said I… |
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Chapter 20: All Astir |
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Chapter 21: Going Aboard |
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Chapter 22: Merry Christmas |
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At last the anchor was up… |
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Chapter 23: The Lee Shore |
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Chapter 24: The Advocate |
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Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn… |
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Chapter 25: Postscript |
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Chapter 26: Knights and Squires |
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With memories like these in him… |
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Chapter 27: Knights and Squires |
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First of all was Queequeg… |
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Chapter 28: Ahab |
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So powerfully did the whole grim aspect… |
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Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb |
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‘I was never served so before…’ |
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Chapter 30: The Pipe |
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Chapter 31: Queen Mab |
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Chapter 32: Cetology |
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Now the various species of whales need… |
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Book 1 (Folio) Chapter 1: (Sperm Whale) |
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In connection with this appellative… |
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Octavoes |
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Duodecimoes |
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Chapter 33: The Specksynder |
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Chapter 34: The Cabin-Table |
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What a relief it was to choking Stubb… |
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It was a sight to see Queequeg seated… |
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Chapter 35: The Mast-Head |
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It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect |
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In shape, the Sleets crows-nest… |
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Let me make a clean breast of it here… |
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Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck |
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Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck… |
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‘Hark ye yet again – the little lower layer…’ |
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Receiving the brimming pewter… |
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Chapter 37: Sunset |
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Chapter 38: Dusk |
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Chapter 39: First Night Watch |
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Chapter 40: Midnight, Forecastle |
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They cease dancing and gather in clusters |
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Chapter 41: Moby-Dick |
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But there were still other and more vital… |
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But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings |
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It is not probable that this monomania… |
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Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse… |
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Chapter 42: The Whiteness of The Whale |
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Bethink thee of the albatross… |
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ances… |
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Or what is there apart from the traditions… |
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But thou sayest, methinks this white-lead chapter… |
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Chapter 43: Hark! |
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Chapter 44: The Chart |
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There was a circumstance which at first sight… |
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But granting all this… |
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Chapter 45: The Affidavit |
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I do not know where I can find a better place… |
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The following are extracts from Chace’s narrative |
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In that up and down manly book… |
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Chapter 46: Surmises |
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Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker |
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Chapter 48: The First Lowering |
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In obedience to a sign from Ahab… |
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Meanwhile Stubb, betrayed on such far-gazing… |
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Meanwhile, all the boats tore on |
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Chapter 49: The Hyena |
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Chapter 50: Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah |
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Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout |
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But, at last, when turning to the eastward… |
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Chapter 52: The Albatross |
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Chapter 53: The Gam |
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But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious… |
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Chapter 54: The Town-Ho’s Story |
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‘Lakeman! Buffalo!…’ |
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‘It was not more than a day or two…’ |
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‘Quitting the pump at last…’ |
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‘Ere the cry could go aft…’ |
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‘I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman…’ |
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‘At sunrise the Captain went forward…’ |
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‘At sunrise he summoned all hands…’ |
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‘During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way… |
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‘In good time, the Town-Ho reached her port…’ |
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Chapter 55: Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales |
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In old Harris’s collection of voyages… |
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As for the sign-painters’ whales seen in the stree |
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Chapter 56: Of the Less Erroneous Pictures… |
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Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not |
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Chapter 57: Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood… |
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At some old gable-roofed country houses… |
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Chapter 58: Brit |
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Chapter 59: Squid |
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Chapter 60: The Line |
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Before lowering the boat for the chase… |
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Chapter 61: Stubb Kills a Whale |
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‘Start her, start her, my men!’ |
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Chapter 62: The Dart |
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Chapter 63: The Crotch |
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Chapter 64: Stubb’s Supper |
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If moody Ahab was now all quiescence… |
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But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings… |
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Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fis |
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Chapter 65: The Whale as a Dish |
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Chapter 66: The Shark Massacre |
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Chapter 67: Cutting In |
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Chapter 68: The Blanket |
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A word or two more concerning this matter… |
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Chapter 69: The Funeral |
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Chapter 70: The Sphynx |
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Chapter 71: The Jeroboam’s Story |
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He had been originally nurtured… |
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It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home |
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Chapter 72: The Monkey-Rope |
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I have hinted that I would often… |
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Chapter 73: Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale |
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While the two headsmen were engaged… |
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The boats were then hailed… |
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Chapter 74: The Sperm Whale’s Head – Contrasted Vi |
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But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the |
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Chapter 75: The Right Whale’s Head – Contrasted Vi |
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A great pity, now… |
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Chapter 76: The Battering-Ram |
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Chapter 77: The Great Heidelburgh Tun |
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Chapter 78: Cistern and Buckets |
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Almost in the same instant… |
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Chapter 79: The Prairie |
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Chapter 80: The Nut |
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Chapter 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin |
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With one intent all the combined rival boats… |
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Seeing now that but a very few moments more… |
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‘Stand by, men; he stirs,’ cried Starbuck… |
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Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival… |
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Chapter 82: The Honour and Glory of Whaling |
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Whether to admit Hercules among us or not… |
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Chapter 83: Jonah Historically Regarded |
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Chapter 84: Pitchpoling |
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Chapter 85: The Fountain |
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It has been said that the whale only breathes… |
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Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter… |
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Chapter 86: The Tail |
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Five great motions are peculiar to it… |
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Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture… |
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Chapter 87: The Grand Armada |
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Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured… |
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But thoughts like these troubled very few… |
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All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances… |
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But far beneath this wondrous world… |
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Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced… |
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Chapter 88: Schools and Schoolmasters |
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But supposing the invader of domestic bliss… |
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The Forty-barrel-bull schools… |
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Chapter 89: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish |
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These pleadings and the counter pleadings… |
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Chapter 90: Heads or Tails |
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In a word the Whale was seized and sold… |
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Chapter 91: The Pequod Meets the Rosebud |
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Now in order to hold direct communication… |
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By this time their destined victim appeared… |
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Chapter 92: Ambergris |
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Chapter 93: The Castaway |
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So soon as he recovered himself… |
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Chapter 94: The Squeeze of the Hand |
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Now, while discoursing of sperm… |
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Chapter 95: The Cassock |
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Chapter 96: The Try-Works |
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So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm… |
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Chapter 97: The Lamp |
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Chapter 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up |
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Chapter 99: The Doubloon |
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‘No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold…’ |
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‘I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gol |
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Chapter 100: Leg and Arm |
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‘It was the first time in my life…’ |
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‘Yes, I may as well,’ said the surgeon coolly… |
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Chapter 101: The Decanter |
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But why was it, think ye, that the Samuel Enderby… |
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Chapter 102: A Bower in the Arsacides |
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Now, when with Royal Tranquo I visited… |
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Chapter 103: Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton |
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Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale |
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Detached broken fossils… |
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Chapter 105: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? |
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But you must look at this matter in every light |
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Chapter 106: Ahab’s Leg |
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Chapter 107: The Carpenter |
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Chapter 108: Ahab and the Carpenter |
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Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest… |
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Chapter 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin |
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Chapter 110: Queequeg in his Coffin |
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Not a man of the crew gave him up… |
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But ere this was done, Pip, who had been… |
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Chapter 111: The Pacific |
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Chapter 112: The Blacksmith |
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Chapter 113: The Forge |
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This done, Perth was about to begin welding… |
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Chapter 114: The Gilder |
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Chapter 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor |
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Chapter 116: The Dying Whale |
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Chapter 117: The Whale Watch |
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Chapter 118: The Quadrant |
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Chapter 119: The Candles |
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Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore… |
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‘Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire…’ |
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Chapter 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First |
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Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks |
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Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft – Thunder and Lightnin |
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Chapter 123: The Musket |
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‘He would have shot me once…’ |
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Chapter 124: The Needle |
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Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts… |
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Chapter 125: The Log and Line |
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‘I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needl |
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Chapter 126: The Life-Buoy |
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The lost life-buoy was now to be replaced… |
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Chapter 127: The Deck |
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Chapter 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel |
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Now, as it shortly turned out… |
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Chapter 129: The Cabin |
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Chapter 130: The Hat |
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But when three or four days had slided by… |
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Chapter 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight |
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Chapter 132: The Symphony |
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‘Oh Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind…’ |
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‘Oh, my Captain! my Captain!’ |
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Chapter 133: The Chase – First Day |
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A gentle joyousness… |
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And now, while both elastic gunwales were springin |
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It is often the case that when a boat is stove… |
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Chapter 134: The Chase – Second Day |
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The rigging lived |
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While the two crews were yet circling in the water |
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The old man’s hinted thought was true… |
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Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day |
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A whole hour now passed… |
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Yet the voice spake true… |
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The harpoon dropped from his hand |
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Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition… |
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Diving beneath the settling ship… |
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Epilogue |
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