Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 16. The Ship.-2
Subject: Moby Dick
Like Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad was a well-to-do, retired whaleman. But unlike Captain Peleg—who cared not a rush for what are called serious things, and indeed deemed those ...
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CHAPTER 16. The Ship.-1
Subject: Moby Dick
In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow. But to my surprise and no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been diligently consulting Yojo—the name o...
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CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
Subject: Moby Dick
It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came snugly to anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend to no business that day, at least none but a supp...
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CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
Subject: Moby Dick
Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket. Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real co...
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CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
Subject: Moby Dick
Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money. The grinning landlo...
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CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
Subject: Moby Dick
Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. When a new-hatched savage running wild about his n...
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CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
Subject: Moby Dick
We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back...
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CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
Subject: Moby Dick
Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time. He was sitting on a bench before th...
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CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
Subject: Moby Dick
Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. “Starboard gangway, there! side away to larboard—larboard gangway to st...
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CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
Subject: Moby Dick
I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing ...
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