Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
Subject: Moby Dick
And jolly enough were the sights and the sounds that came bearing down before the wind, some few weeks after Ahab’s harpoon had been welded. It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelo...
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CHAPTER 114. The Gilder.
Subject: Moby Dick
Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery. Often, in mild, pleasant weather, for twelve, fifte...
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CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
Subject: Moby Dick
With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter placed upon an iron-wood log, with one ...
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CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
Subject: Moby Dick
Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, th...
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CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.
Subject: Moby Dick
When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now t...
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CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
Subject: Moby Dick
Upon searching, it was found that the casks last struck into the hold were perfectly sound, and that the leak must be further off. So, it being calm weather, they broke out deep...
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CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.
Subject: Moby Dick
According to usage they were pumping the ship next morning; and lo! no inconsiderable oil came up with the water; the casks below must have sprung a bad leak. Much concern was s...
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CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
Subject: Moby Dick
The Deck—First Night Watch. (Carpenter standing before his vice-bench, and by the light of two lanterns busily filing the ivory joist for the leg, which joist is firmly fixed in...
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CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
Subject: Moby Dick
Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in m...
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CHAPTER 106. Ahab’s Leg.
Subject: Moby Dick
The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel Enderby of London, had not been unattended with some small violence to his own person. He had lighted with ...
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