Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
Subject: Moby Dick
That for six thousand years—and no one knows how many millions of ages before—the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gard...
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CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
Subject: Moby Dick
To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease...
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CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
Subject: Moby Dick
Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the preceding chapter. Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this historical story of Jonah and the whale. B...
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CHAPTER 82. The Honor and Glory of Whaling.
Subject: Moby Dick
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very spring-head o...
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CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
Subject: Moby Dick
The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen. At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and Germans ...
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CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
Subject: Moby Dick
If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square. In the full-grown creature the sku...
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CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
Subject: Moby Dick
To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet undertaken. Such an enterprise ...
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CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
Subject: Moby Dick
Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging mainyard-arm, to the part where it exactly projects over t...
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CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
Subject: Moby Dick
Now comes the Baling of the Case. But to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon. Regarding the Sperm Whale’s ...
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CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
Subject: Moby Dick
Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whale’s head, I would have you, as a sensible physiologist, simply—particularly remark its front aspect, in all its compacted collectednes...
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