Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump.

For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place;

I have personally known three instances where a whale, after receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape;

BRIT is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.

but we won’t be flogged.’

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

for it is the harpooneer that makes the voyage,

scaramouch

Great word!

called the junk,

Hehe

I try all things; I achieve what I can.

Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No,

But if he did, it would be better than this book.....

I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.

What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants,—a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.

A whaleman’s nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of Leviathan’s tail: it averages an inch in thickness, and for the rest, is about the size of the iron part of a hoe.

endless end.

Queequeg suddenly rallied; soon there seemed no need of the carpenter’s box: and thereupon, when some expressed their delighted surprise, he, in substance, said, that the cause of his sudden convalescence was this;—at a critical moment, he had just recalled a little duty ashore, which he was leaving undone; and therefore had changed his mind about dying: he could not die yet, he averred.

“Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on.

I need this person in my life.

“Where was he?—not killed!—not killed!” cried Ahab, closely advancing. “How was it?”

I bet Ahab would also like reality tv. He wants to see the drama for himself. lol

From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.

“There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!”

Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors!

Nice team building speech, Ahab!