Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
Subject: Moby Dick
I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own abso...
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CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho’s Story.-2
Subject: Moby Dick
“Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he. Like Mark Antony, for days and days ...
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CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho’s Story.-1
Subject: Moby Dick
(As told at the Golden Inn.) The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more tra...
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CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
Subject: Moby Dick
The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms. But even had this not been the case, he would not aft...
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CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
Subject: Moby Dick
South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead, the Goney (Albatross) by name. As she slowly drew nigh, f...
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CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
Subject: Moby Dick
Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod had slowly swept across four several cruising-grounds; that off the Azores; off the Cape de Verdes; on the Plate (so ca...
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CHAPTER 50. Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
Subject: Moby Dick
“Who would have thought it, Flask!” cried Stubb; “if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he’s a wonder...
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CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
Subject: Moby Dick
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he b...
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CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
Subject: Moby Dick
The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which sw...
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CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
Subject: Moby Dick
It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters. Queequeg and I were mildly employed we...
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