Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.
Subject: Moby Dick
Crossing the deck, let us now have a good long look at the Right Whale’s head. As in general shape the noble Sperm Whale’s head may be compared to a Roman war-chariot (especiall...
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CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View.
Subject: Moby Dick
Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them, and lay together our own. Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right W...
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CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him.
Subject: Moby Dick
It must be borne in mind that all this time we have a Sperm Whale’s prodigious head hanging to the Pequod’s side. But we must let it continue hanging there a while till we can g...
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CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
Subject: Moby Dick
In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, and then again hands a...
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CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam’s Story.
Subject: Moby Dick
Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock. By and by, through the glass the stranger’s boats and manned ...
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CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
Subject: Moby Dick
It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomica...
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CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.
Subject: Moby Dick
“Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!” The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though c...
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CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
Subject: Moby Dick
I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of the whale. I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists a...
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CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
Subject: Moby Dick
It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; ever...
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CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
Subject: Moby Dick
When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed...
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