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Moby Dick
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eat him by his own light
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Moby Dick
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eat him by his own light
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how vast, then, the burden of a whale, bearing on his back a column of two hundred fathoms of ocean!
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She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not.
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when you are close enough to a whale to get a close view of his spout, he is in a prodigious commotion, the water cascading all around him
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even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar
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all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it
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showers of gore
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Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.
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a night, a day, and still another night
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the universal thump is passed round
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Moby Dick
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by no means prevent all communications
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It’s the first foul wind I ever knew to blow from astern
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attending to a whale
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The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
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However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens
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little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving the seas after him
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amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm
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Drat the file, and drat the bone! That is hard which should be soft, and that is soft which should be hard.
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And I’m thinking Moby Dick doesn’t bite so much as he swallows.
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Humph! in my poor, insignificant opinion, I regard this as queer.
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their wondrous voracity can be at times considerably diminished, by vigorously stirring them up
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stand just where you stood before, there, over against me, and pay particular attention
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with tornado brow, and eyes of red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey
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and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him
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the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me
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tumultuous business
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Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man’s eyes aloft to that heaven
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Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free.
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so spent was he by loss of blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had made
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I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.
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that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars
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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.
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Moby Dick
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this vast fleet of whales
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now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him
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One day the planks stream with freshets of blood and oil
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But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess
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grease the bottom
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I quaked to think of it.
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Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale’s throat, and then jump after it?
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an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie
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Remember what I say; be kicked by him; account his kicks honors; and on no account kick back
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There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
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strange subterranean commotions
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make modern history a liar
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as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life
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Avast! heave to! I mean when you die, cook. It’s an awful question. Now what’s your answer?
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the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy
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If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives’ darkling hint
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his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore-announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed
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That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded smugglers! the contraband was Jonah.
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