Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
Subject: Moby Dick
(Enter Ahab: Then, all.) It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin-gangway to th...
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CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
Subject: Moby Dick
It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the other seamen my first mast-head came round. In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost sim...
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CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
Subject: Moby Dick
It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-bo...
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CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
Subject: Moby Dick
Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising from the existence of the harpoone...
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CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
Subject: Moby Dick
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod’s weedy hull rolls side b...
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CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.
Subject: Moby Dick
Next morning Stubb accosted Flask. “Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man’s ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to kick b...
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CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.
Subject: Moby Dick
When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a sailor of the watch, he sent him below for his...
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CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
Subject: Moby Dick
Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the...
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CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
Subject: Moby Dick
For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was seen of Captain Ahab. The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches, and for aught that could be see...
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CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
Subject: Moby Dick
Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking peri...
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