“Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“I started at a sound so strange, long-drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand and I stood gazing...”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Who would think that fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!
Yet so it is.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Yet so it is.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Europe, thou great theater of arts, sciences, commerce, war, am I at last permitted to visit thy territories?”
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“Soon ranging up by his flask, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up from another fling.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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