Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
Subject: Moby Dick
In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman’s Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the...
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CHAPTER 6. The Street.
Subject: Moby Dick
If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that astonishment soon ...
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CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
Subject: Moby Dick
I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with m...
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CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
Subject: Moby Dick
Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife. The counte...
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CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
Subject: Moby Dick
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craf...
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CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
Subject: Moby Dick
I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New...
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CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
Subject: Moby Dick
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about...
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EXTRACTS. (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).
Subject: Moby Dick
It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, pic...
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ETYMOLOGY.
Subject: Moby Dick
(Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School.) The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and gr...
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The Afterthought
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and ...
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