More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in colleges, as well as ’mong the cannibals;
Stubb was the second mate.
The third mate was Flask,
He tasks me; he heaps me;
demigorgon.
like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects
“the tall pale man” of the Hartz forests,
Annawon,
hideous and intolerable allegory.
dexterous, off-handed daring,
“Why don’t you break your backbones, my boys?
So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
pirate has no solid basis to stand on.
I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.
cool, keep cool—cucumbers
If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
Ohio honey-hunter,
Whale is the mere vapor of the exhaled breath, or
Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People’s Business.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Basilosaurus.
when thou art dead, never bury thyself under living people’s noses.
the mother dived down into the long churchyard grass;
these stubbs will weld together like glue from the melted bones of murderers.
personified impersonal,
“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!
how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them!
’Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders. Look
boat through the sledge-hammering seas, the before
to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
