Subject for March, 2020

CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?

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Inasmuch, then, as this Leviathan comes floundering down upon us from the head-waters of the Eternities, it may be fitly inquired, whether, in the long course of his generations...

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CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.

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From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate. Would you, you could not compress him. By good rights he shou...

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CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton.

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In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to exhibit. Such a statemen...

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CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.

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Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural ...

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CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.

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Ere the English ship fades from sight, be it set down here, that she hailed from London, and was named after the late Samuel Enderby, merchant of that city, the original of the ...

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CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.

Subject: Moby Dick

The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London. “Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?” So cried Ahab, once more hailing a ship showing English colours, bearing ...

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CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.

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Ere now it has been related how Ahab was wont to pace his quarter-deck, taking regular turns at either limit, the binnacle and mainmast; but in the multiplicity of other things ...

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CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.

Subject: Moby Dick

Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; ...

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CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.

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Had you descended from the Pequod’s try-works to the Pequod’s forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were st...

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CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.

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Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly distinguished by her try-works. She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp i...

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