Subject for March, 2020

CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.

Subject: Moby Dick

Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would ...

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CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.

Subject: Moby Dick

That whale of Stubb’s, so dearly purchased, was duly brought to the Pequod’s side, where all those cutting and hoisting operations previously detailed, were regularly gone throu...

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CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.

Subject: Moby Dick

It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod’s crew; an event most lamentable; and which ...

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CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.

Subject: Moby Dick

Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the E...

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CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.

Subject: Moby Dick

“In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry.” Sir T. Browne, V.E. It was a week or two after the last whaling...

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CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.

Subject: Moby Dick

“De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.” Bracton, l. 3, c. 3. Latin from the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, th...

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CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.

Subject: Moby Dick

The allusion to the waif and waif-poles in the last chapter but one, necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery, of which the waif may be deemed ...

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CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.

Subject: Moby Dick

The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations. Now, though such...

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CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.

Subject: Moby Dick

The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia. In a continuous line from that pen...

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CHAPTER 86. The Tail.

Subject: Moby Dick

Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail. Reckoning the la...

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