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Moby Dick Part 3 - Herman Melville · Herman Melville Classics Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Resolved, then why mayst not thou Carpenter feel the fiery
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  Speaker 1: pains of hell forever and without a body? Hah, good lord, truly, sir.
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  Speaker 1: If it comes to that, I must calculate over again.
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  Speaker 1: I think I didn't carry a small figure, sir. Look
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  Speaker 1: ye pudding head should never grant premises. How long before
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  Speaker 1: the leg is done? Perhaps an hour, sir? Bungle away
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  Speaker 1: at it then and bring it to me. Turns to go,
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  Speaker 1: Oh life, here I am proud as a Greek god,
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  Speaker 1: and yet standing deador to this blockhead for a bone
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  Speaker 1: to stand on? Cursed be that mortal inter indebtedness which
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  Speaker 1: will not do away with ledgers. I would be free
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  Speaker 1: as air, and I'm down in the whole world's books.
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  Speaker 1: I am so rich. I could have given bid forbid
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  Speaker 1: with the wealthiest praetorians, that the auction of the Roman Empire,
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  Speaker 1: which was the world's And yet I owe for the
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  Speaker 1: flesh in the tongue I brag with By heavens, I'll
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  Speaker 1: get a crucible and into it and dissolve myself down
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  Speaker 1: to one small, compendious vertebra So Carpenter, resuming his work.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, well, stub knows him best of all, and
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  Speaker 2: Stubb always says he's queer, says nothing but that one
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  Speaker 2: sufficient little.
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  Speaker 1: Word, queer. He's queer, says Stub. He's queer, queer, queer,
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  Speaker 1: and keeps dinning it into mister Starbuck all the time. Queer, sir, queer, queer,
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  Speaker 1: very queer. And here's his leg, yes, now that I
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  Speaker 1: think of it, here's his bedfellow. He has a stick
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  Speaker 1: of whale's jawbone for a wife, and this is his leg.
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  Speaker 1: He'll stand on this. What was that? Now? About one
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  Speaker 1: leg standing in three places, and all the three places
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  Speaker 1: standing in one?
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  Speaker 2: Hell?
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  Speaker 1: How was that? Oh? I don't wonder he looked so
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  Speaker 1: scornful at me. I'm a sort of strange thoughted sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they say, but that's only haphazard. Like then, a short,
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  Speaker 1: little old body like me should never undertake to wade
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  Speaker 1: out into deep waters with tall heron built captains the
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  Speaker 1: water chucksha under the chin pretty quick, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: great cry for lifeboats. And here's the heron's leg, long
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  Speaker 1: and slim. Sure enough. Now, for most folks, one pair
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  Speaker 1: of legs lasts a lifetime. And that must be because
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  Speaker 1: they use them mercifully as a tender hearted old lady
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  Speaker 1: uses her roly poly old coach horses, but they have
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  Speaker 1: Oh he's a hard driver. Look driven one leg to
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  Speaker 1: death and spavined the other for life, and now wears
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  Speaker 1: out bone legs by the cord. Hello, there you smut.
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  Speaker 1: Bear a hand there with those screws, and let's finish
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  Speaker 1: it before the resurrection. Fellow comes a calling with his
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  Speaker 1: horn for all legs true or false. As brewery men
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  Speaker 1: go round collecting old beer barrels to fill them up again,
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  Speaker 1: what a leg this is? It looks like a real
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  Speaker 1: live leg, filed down to nothing but the core. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be standing on this tomorrow. He'll be taking altitudes on it. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: I almost forgot the little oval slate smooth ivory where
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  Speaker 1: he figures up the latitude. So so chisel, file and
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  Speaker 1: sandpaper now. End of chapters one oh five to one
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  Speaker 1: oh eight, Chapters one oh nine to one thirteen. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: one oh nine Ahab and Starbuck in the according to usage.
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  Speaker 1: They were pumping the ship the next morning, and lo,
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  Speaker 1: no inconsiderable oil came up with the water. The casks
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  Speaker 1: below must have sprung a bad leak. Much concern was shown,
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  Speaker 1: and Starbuck went down into the cabin to report this
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  Speaker 1: unfavorable affair footnote. In sperm whalemen with any considerable quantity
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  Speaker 1: of oil on board, it is a regular semi weekly
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  Speaker 1: duty to conduct a hose into the hold and drench
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  Speaker 1: the casks with sea water, which afterwards, at varying intervals,
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  Speaker 1: is removed by the ship's pumps. Hereby, the casks are
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  Speaker 1: sought to be kept damply tight, while by the changed
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  Speaker 1: character of the withdrawn water, the mariners readily detect any
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  Speaker 1: serious leakage in the precious cargo. End of footnote. Now,
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  Speaker 1: from the south and west, the Pea quad was drawing
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  Speaker 1: nigh to Formosa and the Bashee Isles, between which lies
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  Speaker 1: one of the tropical outc lets from the China Waters
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  Speaker 1: into the Pacific. And so Starbuck found Ahab with a
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  Speaker 1: general chart of the Oriental archipelagoes spread before him, and
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  Speaker 1: another separate one representing the long eastern coasts of the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese islands Nifan, Matsmai, and Sikoke. With his snow white
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  Speaker 1: new ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table,
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  Speaker 1: and with a long pruning hook of a jackknife in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, the wondrous old man with his back to
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  Speaker 1: the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow and tracing his
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  Speaker 1: old courses again. Who's there hearing the footstep at the door,
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  Speaker 1: but not turning round to it on deck? Be gone,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Ahab mistakes it is I The oil in the
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  Speaker 1: hold is leaking, sir. We must up burtons and break out.
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  Speaker 1: Up burtons and break out now that we are nearing Japan.
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  Speaker 1: Heave two here for a week to a parcel of
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  Speaker 1: old hoops. Either do that, sir, or waste in one
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  Speaker 1: day more oil than we may make good in a year.
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  Speaker 1: What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth saving, sir.
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  Speaker 1: So it is, so it is if we get it.
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  Speaker 1: I was speaking of the oil in the hold, sir,
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  Speaker 1: and I was not speaking or thinking of that at all.
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  Speaker 1: Be gone, let it leak. I'm all a leak myself.
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  Speaker 1: I leaks in leaks, not only full of leaky casks,
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  Speaker 1: but those leaky casks are in a leaky ship. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a far worse plight than the pequads. Man. Yet
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  Speaker 1: I don't stop to plug my leak, for who can
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  Speaker 1: find it in the deep loaded hull? Or how hope
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  Speaker 1: to plug it even if found in this life's howling gale, Starbuck,
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  Speaker 1: I'll not have the burtons hoisted. What will the owners say, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Let the owners stand on Nantucket Beach and out yell
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  Speaker 1: the typhoons. What cares Ahab owners? Owners? Thou art always
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  Speaker 1: prating to me, Starbuck, about those miserly owners, as if
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  Speaker 1: the owners were my conscience. But look, ye, the only
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  Speaker 1: real owner of anything is its commander, And hark ye,
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  Speaker 1: my conscience is in this ship's keel on deck, Captain Ahab,
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  Speaker 1: said the reddening mate, moving further into the cabin with
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  Speaker 1: a daring so strangely respectful and cautious that it almost
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  Speaker 1: seemed not only every way seeking to avoid the slightest
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  Speaker 1: outward manifestation of itself, but within also seemed more than
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  Speaker 1: half distrustful of itself. A better man than I might
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  Speaker 1: well pass over in thee what he would quickly enough
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  Speaker 1: resent in a younger man, ay and in a happier
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  Speaker 1: Captain Ahab, dev dost thou, then, so much as dare
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  Speaker 1: to critically think of me on deck? Nay, sir, not
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  Speaker 1: yet I do entreat, and I do dare, sir, to
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  Speaker 1: be forbearing? Shall we not understand each other better than hitherto.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Ahab Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack
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  Speaker 1: forming part of most south seamens cabin furniture, and pointing
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  Speaker 1: it towards Starbuck, exclaimed, there is one god that is
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  Speaker 1: lord over the earth, and one captain that is lord
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  Speaker 1: over the peaquad on deck. For an instant, in the
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  Speaker 1: flashing eyes of the mate and his fiery cheeks, you
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  Speaker 1: would have almost thought that he had really received the
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  Speaker 1: blaze of the leveled tube. But mastering his emotion, he
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  Speaker 1: half calmly rose, and as he quitted the cabin, paused
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  Speaker 1: for an instant and said, outraged, not insulted me, sir,
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  Speaker 1: But for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck.
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  Speaker 1: Thou wouldst but laugh. But let Ahab beware of Ahab.
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  Speaker 1: Beware of thyself, old man. He waxes brave, but nevertheless
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  Speaker 1: obeys most careful bravery that murmured Ahab. As Starbuck disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: What's that? He said, Ahab, beware of Ahab. There's something there. Then,
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  Speaker 1: unconsciously using the musket for a staff with an iron brow,
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  Speaker 1: he paced to and fro in the little cabin. But
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  Speaker 1: presently the thick pleats of his forehead relaxed, and returning
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  Speaker 1: the gun to the rack, he went on deck. Thou art,
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  Speaker 1: but too good a fellow Starbuck, he said lowly to
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  Speaker 1: the mate, then raising his voice to the crew. For
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  Speaker 1: all the time our gallant sails and close reefed the
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  Speaker 1: top sails fore and aft back the main yard, up burtens,
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  Speaker 1: and break out in the main hold. It were perhaps
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  Speaker 1: vain to surmise exactly why it was that, as respecting
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  Speaker 1: Starbuck ahab thus acted. It may have been a flash
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  Speaker 1: of honesty in him, or mere prudential policy, which, under
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  Speaker 1: the circumstance imperiously forbad. The slightest symptom of open disaffection,
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  Speaker 1: however transient, in the important chief officer of his ship.
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  Speaker 1: However it was his orders were executed and the burtons
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  Speaker 1: were hoisted Chapter one ten Quequeg in his coffin, Upon searching,
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  Speaker 1: it was found that the casks last struck into the
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  Speaker 1: hold were perfectly sound, and that the leak must be
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  Speaker 1: further off. So it, being calm weather, they broke out
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  Speaker 1: deeper and deeper, disturbing the slumbers of the huge ground
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  Speaker 1: tier butts, And from that black midnight sending those gigantic
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  Speaker 1: moles into the daylight above. So deep did they go,
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  Speaker 1: and so ancient and corroded and weedy the aspect of
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  Speaker 1: the lowermost puncheons that you almost looked next for some
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  Speaker 1: moldy corner stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with
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  Speaker 1: copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old
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  Speaker 1: world from the flood tiars. After tears too, of water
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  Speaker 1: and bread and beef, and shooks of staves and iron
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  Speaker 1: bundles of hoops were hoisted out, till at last the
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  Speaker 1: piled decks were hard to get about, and the hollow
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  Speaker 1: hull echoed underfoot as if you were treading over empty catacombs,
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  Speaker 1: and reeled and rolled in the sea like an air
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  Speaker 1: freighted demijohn. Top heavy was the ship, as a dinnerless
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  Speaker 1: student with all Aristotle in his head. Well was it
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  Speaker 1: that the typhoons did not visit them? Then? Now? At
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  Speaker 1: this time it was that my poor pagan companion and
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  Speaker 1: fast bosom friend Quequag was seized with a fever which
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  Speaker 1: brought him nigh to his endless end. Be it said
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  Speaker 1: that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown. Dignity
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  Speaker 1: and danger go hand in hand till you get to
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  Speaker 1: be captain. The higher you rise, the harder you toil.
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  Speaker 1: So with poor Quequag, who, as harpooneer, must not only
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  Speaker 1: face all the rage of the living whale, but, as
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  Speaker 1: we have elsewhere seen, mount his dead back in a
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  Speaker 1: rolling sea, and finally descend into the gloom of the hold,
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  Speaker 1: and bitterly sweating all day in that subterraneous confinement, resolutely
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  Speaker 1: manhandle the clumsiest casks and see to their stowage to
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  Speaker 1: be short. Among whalemen, the harpooneers are the holders so
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  Speaker 1: called poor Quekquag. When the ship was about half des emboweled,
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  Speaker 1: you should have stooped over the hatched way and peered
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  Speaker 1: down upon him. There Where, stripped to his woolen drawers,
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  Speaker 1: the tattooed savage was crawling about amid that dampness and slime,
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  Speaker 1: like a green spotted lizard at the bottom of a
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  Speaker 1: well and a well or an ice house. It somehow
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  Speaker 1: proved to him, poor pagan where strange to say, for
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  Speaker 1: all the heat of his sweatings he caught a terrible
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  Speaker 1: chill which lapsed into a fever and at last, after
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  Speaker 1: some days suffering, laid him in his hammock, close to
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  Speaker 1: the very sill of the door of death. How he
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  Speaker 1: wasted and wasted away in those few long, lingering days,
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  Speaker 1: till there seemed but little left of him but his
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  Speaker 1: frame and tattooing. But as all else in him thinned,
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  Speaker 1: and his cheek bones grew sharper, his eyes nevertheless seemed
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  Speaker 1: growing fuller and fuller. They became of a strange softness
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  Speaker 1: of luster, and mildly but deeply looked out at you
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  Speaker 1: there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal
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  Speaker 1: health in him which could not die or be weakened.
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  Speaker 1: And like circles on the water, which as they grow fainter, expand,
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  Speaker 1: so his eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings
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  Speaker 1: of eternity. An awe that cannot be named, would steal
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  Speaker 1: over you as you sat by the side of this
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  Speaker 1: waning savage and saw as strange things in his face
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  Speaker 1: as any beheld who were bystanders when Zoroaster died. For
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  Speaker 1: whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man never yet
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  Speaker 1: was put into words or books. And the drawing near
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  Speaker 1: of death, which alike levels, all alike impresses all with
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  Speaker 1: a last revelation which only an author from the dead
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  Speaker 1: could adequately tell, So that let us say it again,
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  Speaker 1: no dying Chaldie or Greek had higher and holier thoughts
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  Speaker 1: than those whose mysterious shades you saw creeping over the
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  Speaker 1: face of poor Quequay as he quietly lay in his
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  Speaker 1: swaying hammock, and the rolling sea seemed gently rocking him
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  Speaker 1: to his final rest, and the ocean's invisible flood tide
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  Speaker 1: lifted him higher and higher towards his destined heaven. Not
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  Speaker 1: a man of the crew but gave him up. And
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  Speaker 1: as for que Quag himself, what he thought of the
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  Speaker 1: case was forcibly shown by a curious favor he asked.
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  Speaker 1: He called one to him in the gray morning watch,
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  Speaker 1: when the day was just breaking, and taking his hand,
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  Speaker 1: said that while in Nantucket he had chanced to see
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  Speaker 1: certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich warwood
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  Speaker 1: of his native isle, And upon inquiry he had learned
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  Speaker 1: that all whalemen who died in Nantucket were laid in
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  Speaker 1: those same dark canoes, and that the fancy of being
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  Speaker 1: so laid had much pleased him, for it was not
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  Speaker 1: unlike the custom of his own race, who, after embalming
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  Speaker 1: a dead warrior, stretched him out in his canoe, and
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  Speaker 1: so left him to be floated away to the starry archipelagoes.
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  Speaker 1: For not only do they believe that the stars or isles,
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  Speaker 1: but that far beyond all visible horizons, their own mild
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  Speaker 1: uncontinented seas interflow with the blue heavens and so form
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  Speaker 1: the white breakers of the Milky Way. He added that
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  Speaker 1: he shuddered at the thought of being buried in his hammock,
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  Speaker 1: according to the usual sea custom, tossed like something vile
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  Speaker 1: to the death devouring sharks. No, he desired a canoe
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  Speaker 1: like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial to him
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  Speaker 1: being a whaleman. That, like a whale boat, these coffin
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  Speaker 1: canoes were without a keel, though that involved but uncertain
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  Speaker 1: steering and much leeway adown the dim ages. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: this strange circumstance was made known, Aft the carpenter was
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  Speaker 1: at once commanded to do Quekwig's bidding, whatever it might include.
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  Speaker 1: There was some heathenish coffin colored old lumber aboard which
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  Speaker 1: upon a long previous voyage had been cut from the
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  Speaker 1: aboriginal groves of the Lacceadae islands, and from these dark
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  Speaker 1: planks the coffin was recommended to be made. No sooner
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  Speaker 1: was the carpenter apprized of the order than taking his rule.
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  Speaker 1: He forthwith with all the indifferent promptitude of his character,
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  Speaker 1: proceeded into the forecastle and took Quekqueg's measure with great accuracy,
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  Speaker 1: regularly chalking Quekqueg's person as he shifted the rule. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: poor fellow, he'll have to die now ejaculated the long
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  Speaker 1: island sailor. Going to his vice bench, the carpenter, for
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  Speaker 1: convenience sake and general reference, now transferringly measured on it
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  Speaker 1: the exact length the coffin was to be, and then
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  Speaker 1: made the transfer permanent by cutting two notches at its extremities.
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  Speaker 1: This done, he marshaled the planks in his tools and
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  Speaker 1: to work. When the last nail was driven and the
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  Speaker 1: lid duly planed and fitted, he lightly shouldered the coffin
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  Speaker 1: and went forward with it, inquiring whether they were ready
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  Speaker 1: for it yet in that direction, overhearing the indignant but
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  Speaker 1: half humorous cries with which the people on deck began
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  Speaker 1: to drive the coffin away, quek Quag, to everyone's consternation,
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  Speaker 1: commanded that the thing should be instantly brought to him.
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  Speaker 1: Nor was there any denying him, seeing that of all mortals,
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  Speaker 1: some dying men are the most tyrannical, And certainly, since
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  Speaker 1: they will shortly trouble us, so little forevermore, the poor
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  Speaker 1: fellows ought to be indulged. Leaning over in his hammock,
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  Speaker 1: que Quig long regarded the coffin with an attentive eye.
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  Speaker 1: He then called for his harpoon and had the wooden
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  Speaker 1: stock drawn from it, and then had the iron part
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  Speaker 1: placed in the coffin, along with one of the paddles
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  Speaker 1: of his boat, all by his own request. Also, biscuits
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  Speaker 1: were then ranged round the sides. Within a flask of
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: fresh water was placed at the head, and a small
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  Speaker 1: bag of woody earth scraped up in the hole at
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  Speaker 1: the foot, and a piece of sailcloth being rolled up
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  Speaker 1: for a pillow. Queakquag now entreated to be lifted into
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  Speaker 1: his final bed, that he might make trial of its comforts,
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  Speaker 1: if any it had. He lay without moving a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: then told one to go to his bag and bring
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  Speaker 1: out his little god Yojo. Then crossing his arms on
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  Speaker 1: his breast with yojo between, he called for the coffin
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  Speaker 1: lid hatch. He called it to be placed over him.
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  Speaker 1: The head part turned over with a leather hinge, and
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  Speaker 1: there lay Queekwag in his coffin, with little but his
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  Speaker 1: composed countenance in view. Ramai it will do, It is easy,
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  Speaker 1: he murmured at last, and signed to be replaced in
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  Speaker 1: his hammock. But ere this was done. Pip, who had
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  Speaker 1: been slyly hovering near by all this while, drew nigh
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  Speaker 1: to him where he lay, and with soft sobbings, took
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  Speaker 1: him by the hand, in the other holding his tambourine.
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  Speaker 1: Poor rover, will ye never have done with all this
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  Speaker 1: weary roving? Where go ye now? But if the currents
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  Speaker 1: carry you to those sweet antilles where the beeches are
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  Speaker 1: only beat with water lilies, will you do one little
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  Speaker 1: errand for me seek out one Pip who's now been
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  Speaker 1: missing long. I think he's in those far antilles. If
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  Speaker 1: you find him, then comfort him, for he must be
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  Speaker 1: very sad. For look, he's left his tambourine behind. I
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  Speaker 1: found it. Rig a dig dig now quick queg die
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  Speaker 1: and I'll beat your dying march. I have heard murmured Starbuck,
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  Speaker 1: gazing down the scuttle, that in violent fevers men all
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  Speaker 1: ignorance have talked in ancient tongues, and that when the
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  Speaker 1: mystery is probed, it turns out always that in their
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  Speaker 1: wholly forgotten childhood, those ancient tongues had been really spoken
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  Speaker 1: in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So to my
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  Speaker 1: fond and faith, poor Pip, in this strange sweetness of
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  Speaker 1: his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all our heavenly homes.
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  Speaker 1: Where learned he that? But there, Hark, he speaks again,
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  Speaker 1: but more wildly. Now form two and two. Let's make
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  Speaker 1: a general of him. Ho, where's his harpoon? Lay it
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  Speaker 1: across here? Rig adig dig huzzah, Oh for a game cock,
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  Speaker 1: now to sit upon his head and crow. Que quag
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Dies game mind, ye that que quag Dies. Game. Take
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you good, heed of that que quag Dies game, I say, game, game, game.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: But base little Pip, he died, a coward, died. All
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: a shiver out upon Pip. Hark. Ye, if you find Pip,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: tell all the Antilles he's a runaway, a coward, a coward,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a coward, tell them he jumped from a whale boat.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I'd never beat my tambourine over base Pip, and hail
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: him general if he were once more dying here, no,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: no shame upon all cowards, Shame upon them. Let him
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: go drown like Pip that jumped from a whaleboat. Shame, shame.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: During all this, quek Quag lay with closed eyes, as
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: if in a dream. Pip was led away, and the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: sick man was replaced in his hammock. But now that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he had apparently made every preparation for death, now that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: his coffin was proved a good fit, Quequag suddenly rallied.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Soon there seemed no need of the carpenter's box. And thereupon,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: when some expressed their delighted surprise, he in substance said
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that the cause of his sudden convalescence was this, at
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a critical moment, he had just recalled a little duty
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: ashore which he was leaving undone, and therefore had changed
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: his mind about dying. He could not die, yet, he averred.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: They asked him, then, whether to live or die was
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a matter of his own sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: in a word, it was Quekquag's conceit that if a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: not kill him, nothing but a whale, or a gale,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort. Now
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: there is this noteworthy difference between savage and civilized, that
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: while a six civilized man may be six months convalescing,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: generally speaking, a sick savage is almost half well again
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in a day. So in good time my Queakquag gained strength,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and at length, after sitting on the windlass for a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: few indolent days, but eating with a vigorous appetite, he
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out his arms and legs,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and, then,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: springing into the head of his hoisted boat and poising
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a harpoon, pronounced himself fit for a fight. With a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: wild whimsiness. He now used his coffin for a chest, and,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: emptying into it as canvas bag of clothes, set them
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: in order. There many spare hours he spent in carving
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the lid with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: rude way to copy parts of the twisted tattooing on
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: his body. And this tattooing had been the work of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a departed prophet and seer on his island, who, by
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth. So that Quiquag,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: in his own proper person, was a riddle to unfold,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a wondrous work in one volume, but whose mysteries not
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: even himself could read, though his own live heart beat
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: against them. And these mysteries were therefore destined in the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: end to molder away with the living parchment whereon they
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: that wild exclamation of his when one morning, turning away
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: from surveying poor quequeg oh devilish tantalization of the Gods,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Chapter one hundred eleven The Pacific, When gliding by the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Bashee Isles, we emerged at last upon the great South Sea.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Were it not for other things, I could have greeted
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks. For now the long
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: supplication of my youth was answered that serene Ocean rolled
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: eastwards from me, a thousand leagues of blue. There is
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gentle,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: awful stirring seemed to speak of some hidden soul beneath,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: buried evangelist Saint John and meet. It is that over
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: these sea pastures, wide, rolling watery prairies and Potter's fields
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and ebb and flow unceasingly. For here millions of mixed
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries, all that we
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: call lives, and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still tossing like
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: slumberers in their beds, the ever rolling waves, but made
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: so by their restlessness. To any meditative magian rover, this
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the sea
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of his adoption. It rolls the midmost waters of the world,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being, but its arms the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: same waves wash the moles of the new built Californian towns,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: older than Abraham, while all between float milky ways of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: coral isles and low lying, endless unknown archipelagoes and impenetrable Japans. Thus,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: this mysterious divine Pacific zones, the world's whole bulk about
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: makes all coasts one bay to it seems, the tide
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: beating heart of Earth, lifted by those eternal swells you
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: needs must own, the seductive god bowing your head to Pan.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: But few thoughts of Pan stirred Ahab's brain. As standing
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: like an iron statue at his accustomed place beside the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Mizzen rigging with one nostril, he unthinkingly snuffed the sugary
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: musk from the Bashee isles, in whose sweet woods mild
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: lovers must be walking, and with the other consciously inhaled
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the salt breath of the newfound sea, that sea in
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: which the hated white whale must even then be swimming.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Launched at length upon these almost final waters and gliding
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: towards the Japanese cruising ground. The old man's purpose intensified itself.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: His firm lips met like the lips of a vice,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: The delta of his forehead's veins swelled like overladen brooks.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: In his very sleep, his ringing cry ran through the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: vaulted hull stern all the white whale spout's thick blood.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Chapter one twelve. The Blacksmith, availing himself of the mild
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: summer cool weather that now rained in these latitudes, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuit shortly to be
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: anticipated Perth. The begrimed, blistered old blacksmith had not removed
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: his portable forge to the hold again after concluding his
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: contributory work for Ahab's leg, but still retained it on deck,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: fast lashed to ring bolts by the foremast. Being now
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: almost in incessantly invoked by the headsmen and harpooneers and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: bowsmen to do some little job for them, altering or
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: repairing or new shaping their various weapons and boat furniture.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Often he would be surrounded by an eager circle, all
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: waiting to be served, holding boat spades, pike heads, harpoons,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and lances, and jealously watching his every sooty movement as
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: he toiled. Nevertheless, this old man's was a patient hammer
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: wielded by a patient arm. No murmur, no impatience, no petulance,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: did come from him, Silent, slow and solemn. Bowing over
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away as
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: his hammer the heavy beating of his heart. And so
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: it was most miserable. A peculiar walk in this old man.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: A certain slight but painful, appearing yawing in his gait,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: had at an an early period of the voyage excited
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the curiosity of the mariners, and to the importunity of
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: their persisted questionings, he had finally given in. So it
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: came to pass that everyone now knew the shameful story
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of his wretched fate. Belated and not innocently, one bitter
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: winter's midnight, on the road running between two country towns,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the blacksmith half stupidly felt the deadly numbness stealing over him,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and sought refuge in a leaning, dilapidated barn. The issue
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: was the loss of the extremities of both feet out
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: of this revelation, part by part, at last came out
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the four acts of the Gladness, and the one long
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and as yet uncatastrophed fifth act of the Grief of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: his life's drama. He was an old man who, at
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly encountered that thing
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in sorrow's technicals called ruin. He had been an artisan
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: of f aimed excellence, and with plenty to do, owned
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: a house and garden, embraced a youthful daughter like loving wife,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and three blithe, ruddy children. Every Sunday went to a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: cheerful looking church planted in a grove. But one night,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and robbed them all of everything, and darker yet to tell,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: family's heart. It was the bottle conjurer. Upon the opening
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend and shriveled
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: up his home. Now for prudent, most wise and economic reasons,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the blacksmith's shop was in the basement of his dwelling,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: but with a separate entrance to it, so that always
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: had the young and loving, healthy wife listened with no
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: unhappy nervousness, but with vigorous pleasure to the stout ringing
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of her young arms. Old husband's hammer, whose reverberations muffled
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: by passing through the floors and walls, came up to
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: her not unsweetly in her nursery, and so to stout
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Labour's iron lullaby, the blacksmith's infants were rocked to slumber.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Oh woe on woe, Oh death. Why canst thou not
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: sometimes be timely? Hadst thou taken this old blacksmith to
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: thyself ere his full ruin came upon him? Then had
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a truly venerable legendary sire to dream of in their
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: after years, and all of them a care killing competency.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: But death plucked down some virtuous elder brother on whose
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: whistling daily toil solely hung the responsibilities of some other family,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and left thee worse than useless old man, standing till
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Why tell the hole. The blows of the basemant hammer
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: every day grew more and more between, and each blow,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: every day grew fainter than the last. The wife sat
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: frozen at the window, with tearless eyes, glitteringly gazing into
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: the weeping faces of her children. The bellows fell, the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: forge choked up with cinders. The house was sold. The
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: mother dived down into the long churchyard grass. Her children
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: twice followed her thither, And the houseless, familyless old man
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: staggered off, a vagabond in crape, his every woe unreverenced,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: his gray head a scorn to flaxen curls. Death seems
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: the only desirable sequel for a career like this. But
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: death is only a launching into the region of the strange, untried.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: It is but the first salutation to the possibilities of
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the immense, remote, the wild, the watery, the unshored. Therefore
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to the death longing eyes of such a men who
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Does the all contributed and all receptive ocean alluringly spread
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: forth his whole plane of unimaginable taking terrors and wonderful
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: new life adventures, and from the hearts of infinite pacifics,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the thousand mermaids sing to them. Come hither, broken hearted,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Here is another life without the guilt of intermediate death.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them. Come hither,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: bury thyself in a life which, to your now equally
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: abhorred and abhorring landed world is more oblivious than death.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Come hither, put up thy gravestone too within the churchyard,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and come hither till we marry thee Hearkening to these
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: voices east and west by early sunrise and by fall
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of eve, the blacksmith soul responded, Aye, I come, And
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: so Perth went a wailing Chapter one thirteen the forge,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: with matted beard and swathed in a bristling shark skin apron.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: About midday, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the latter placed upon an iron wood log, with one
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: hand holding a pike head in the coals, and with
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the other at his forge's lungs. When Captain Ahab came along,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: carrying in his hand a small, rusty looking leathern bag.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: While yet a little distance from the forge, moody Ahab
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: paused till at last, Perth, withdrawing his iron from the fire,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: began hammering it upon the anvil, the red mass, sending
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: off the sparks in thick, hovering flights, some of which
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: flew close to Ahab. Are these thy mother Cary's chickens, Perth,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: They are always flying in thy wake, birds of good
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: omen too, but not to all look here they burn,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: But thou thou livest among them without a scorch, because
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I am scorched all over, Captain Ahab answered Perth, resting
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: for a moment on his hammer, I am past scorching,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: not easily. Canst thou scorch a scar? Well? Well, no more?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in no paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: and others that is not mad? Thou shouldst go mad? Blacksmith, say,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: why dost thou not go mad? How canst thou endure
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee that
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: thou canst not go mad? What wert thou making there
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: welding an old pike head? Sir? There were seams and
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: dense in it, And canst thou make it all smooth again, blacksmith,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: after such hard usage as it had. I think so, sir,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: And I suppose thou canst smooth almost any seams and dense,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: never mind how hard the metal blacksmith, Aye, sir, I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: think I can all seems in dense but one. Look
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: ye here, then, cried Ahab, passionately advancing and leaning with
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: both hands on Perth's shoulders. Look ye here here can
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you smooth out a seam like this, blacksmith, sweeping one
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: hand across his ribbed brow. If thou couldst, blacksmith glad enough,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: would I lay my head upon thy anvil and feel
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: thy heaviest hammer between my eyes? Answer? Canst thou smooth
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: this seam? Oh? That is the one, sir, said, I
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: not all seems in dense but one, Hi, blacksmith, it
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: is the one. I man. It is unsmoothable, For though
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: thou only seest it here in my flesh, it has
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: worked down into the bone of my skull. That is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: all wrinkles. But away with child's play. No more gaffs
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and pikes today. Look ye here, jingling the leathern bag
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: as if it were full of gold coins. I too
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: want a harpoon made one that a thousand yoke of
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: fiends could not part. Perth something that will stick in
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: a whale like his own fin bone. There's the stuff
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: flinging the pouch upon the anvil. Look, ye, blacksmith, these
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: are the gathered nail stubs of the steel shoes of
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: racing horses, horseshoe stubs. Sir, Why Captain Ahab thou hast there?
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Then the best and stubborness stuff we blacksmiths ever work?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I know it, old man. These stubs will weld together
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: like glue from the melted bones of murderers. Quick, forge
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: me the harpoon, and forge me first twelve rods for
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: its shank. Then wind and twist and hammer these twelve
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: together like the yarns and strands of a tow line. Quick,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I'll blow the fire. When at last the twelve rods
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: were made, Ahab tried them one by one by spiraling
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: them with his own hand round a long, heavy iron bolt,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a flaw, rejecting the last one. Work that over again, Perth.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: This done. Perth was about to begin welding the twelve
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: into one when Ahab stayed his hand and said he
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: would weld his own iron. As Then, with regular gasping hems,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: he hammered on the anvil, Perth passing to him the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: glowing rock odds one after the other, and the hard
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: pressed forward, shooting up its intense, straight flame. The Parsi
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: passed silently and bowing over his head towards the fire,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: seemed invoking some curse or some blessing on the toil.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: But as Ahab looked up, he slid aside. What's that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: bunch of lucifers dodging about? Therefore, muttered stub looking on
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: from the forecastle, That parsy smells fire like a fusee,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and smells of it himself like a hot musket's powder pan.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: At last, the shank in one complete rod, received its
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: final heat, and as Perth to temper, it plunged it
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: all hissing into the cask of water near by. The
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: scalding steam shot up into Ahab's bent face. Wouldst thou
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: brand me, Perth? Wincing for a moment with the pain
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: have I been but forging my own branding iron? Then
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: pray God not that yet I fear something, Captain Ahab,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: is not this harpoon for the white whale? For the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: white fiend. But now for the barbs, thou must make
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: them thyself. Man, here are my razors, the best of steel.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Here and make the barb sharp as the needle sleet
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: of the icy sea. For a moment, the old blacksmith
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: eyed the razors as though he would fain not use them.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Take them, man, I have no need for them, for
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I now neither shave sup nor pray till, but here
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: to work. Fashioned at last into an arrowy shape, and
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: welded by perth to the shank. The steel soon pointed
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the end of the iron, and as the blacksmith was
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: about giving the barbs their final heat prior to tempering them,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: he cried to Ahab to place the water cask near. No, no,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: no water, for that I wanted of the true death temper.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: OHI there tsh tago quick w egg dagoo. What say ye, pagans,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Will you give me as much blood as will cover
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: this barb? Holding it high up, a cluster of dark
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: nods replied yes. Three punctures were made in the heathen flesh,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and the white whale's barbs were then tempered. Ago non
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: baptizo te in Nomine Patres said in nomine Diaboli deliriously
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Now mustering these spare poles from below, and selecting one
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: of hickory, with the bark still investing it, Ahab fitted
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the end to the socket of the iron. A coil
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: of new tow line was then unwound, and some fathoms
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: of it taken to the windlass and stretched to a
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: great tension, pressing his foot upon it till the rope
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: hummed like a harp's string. Then, eagerly bending over it,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and seeing no strandings, Ahab exclaimed good and now for
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: the seizings. At one extremity, the rope was unstranded, and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: the separate spread yarns were all braided and woven round
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the socket of the harpoon. The pole was then driven
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: hard up into the socket from the lower end. The
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: rope was traced halfway along the pole's length and firmly
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: secured so with intertwistings of twine. This done, pole, iron
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and rope, like the three fates, remained inseparable, and Ahab
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: moodily stalked away with the weapon. The sound of his
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: ivory leg and the sound of the hickory pole, both
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: hollowly ringing along every plank. But ere he entered his cabin.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Light unnatural, half bantering, yet most piteous sound was heard.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Oh pip, thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: All thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: tragedy of the melancholy ship and mocked it. End of
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: chapters one hundred nine to one thirteen, Chapters one hundred
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: fourteen to one hundred eighteen, Chapter one hundred fourteen, the
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: guilder penetrating further and further into the heart of the
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Japanese cruising ground. The peaquad was soon all astir in
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: the fishery, often in mild, pleasant weather. For twelve, fifteen,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty hours on the stretch they were engaged
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: in the boats, steadily pulling or sailing or paddling after
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the whales, or for an interlude of sixty or seventy minutes,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: calmly awaiting their uprising, though with but small success for
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: their pains. At such times, under an unabated sun afloat
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: all day upon on smooth, slow heaving swells, seated in
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: his boat, light as a birch canoe, and so sociably
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: mixing with these soft waves themselves, that, like hearthstone cats,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: they purr against the gunwale. These are the times of dreamy, quiet, hued,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it, and
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: a remorseless fang. These are the times when, in his
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: whale boat the rover softly feels a certain filial, confident,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: land like feeling towards the sea, that he regards it
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: as so much flowery earth, and the distant ship, revealing
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward not
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: through high rolling waves, but through the tall grass of
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a rolling prairie, as when the Western immigrants horses only
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies widely weighed
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: through the amazing verdure, the long drawn virgin veils, the
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: mild blue hillsides. As over these there steals the hush,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: the hum you almost swear that playwearied children lie sleeping
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: in these solitudes in some glad may time when the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: flowers of the woods are plucked, and all this mixes
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: with your most mystic mood, so that fact and fancy,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: half way meeting, interpenetrate and form one seamless hole. Nor
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: did such soothing scenes, however, temporary fail of at least
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: as temporary an effect on Ahab. But if these secret
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: golden keys did seem to open in him his own
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: secret golden treasuries, yet did his breath upon them prove
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: but tarnishing, Oh grassy glades, Oh, ever vernal, endless landscapes
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: in the soul in ye, though long parts arched by
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the dead drought of the earthly life in ye, men
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: yet may roll like young horses in new mourning clover,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and for some few fleeting moments feel the cool dew
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: of the life immortal on them. Would to God these
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: life are woven by warp and woof calms, cross by storms.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: A storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: progress in this life. We do not advance through fixed gradations,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and at the last one pause through Infancy's unconscious spell
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescences, doubt, the common doom, then skepticism
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of if.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: But once gone through we trace the round again and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: are infants, boys and men, and ifs eternally? Where lies
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: the final barbor? Whence we unmour no more? In what
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: wrapt ether sails the world of which the weariest will
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: never weary? Where is the foundling's father hidden? Our souls
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: The secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: we must there to learn it. And that same day too,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: gazing far down from his boat's side into that same
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured loveliness unfathomable as ever lover
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: saw in his young bride's eye. Tell me not of
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: thy teeth teared sharks, in thy kidnapping cannibal ways. Let
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: faith oust fact, let fancy oust memory. I look deep
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: down and do believe, And Stub fish like with sparkling scales,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: leaped up in that same golden light. I am Stub,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: and Stubb has his history. But here Stubb takes oaths
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: that he has always been jolly Chapter one, fifteen, The
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Peaquad meets the Bachelor, And jolly enough were these sights
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: and sounds that came bearing down before the wind some
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: few weeks after Ahab's harpoon had been welded. It was
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: a nantucket ship. The Bachelor, which had just wedged in
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: her last cask of oil and bolted down her bursting hatches,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and now in glad holiday apparel, was joyously, though somewhat vaingloriously,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: sailing round among the widely separated ships on the ground
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: previous to pointing her prow for home. The three men
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: at her masthead wore long streamers of narrow red bunting
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: at their hats. From the stern, a whale boat was suspended,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: bottomed down and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the long lower jaw of the last way they had slain. Signals, ensigns,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: and jacks of all colors were flying from her rigging
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: on every side sideways. Lashed in each of her three
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: basketed tops were two barrels of sperm, above which in
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: her top mast cross trees you saw slender breakers of
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: the same precious fluid and nailed to her main truck
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: was a brazen lamp. As was afterwards learned, the bachelor
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: had met with the most surprising success, all the more
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: wonderful for that, while cruising in these same seas, numerous
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: other vessels had gone entire months without securing a single fish.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Not only had barrels of beef and bread been given
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: away to make room for the far more valuable sperm,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: but additional supplemental casks had been bartered for from the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: ship she had met, and these were stowed along the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: deck and in the captain's and officers state rooms. Even
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling wind,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: and the cabin mess dined off the broadhead of an
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: oil butt lashed down to the floor for a centerpiece.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: In the forecastle, the sailors had actually cockd and pitched
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: their chests and filled them. It was humorously added that
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: the cook had clapped ahead on his largest boiler and
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: filled it. That the steward had plugged his spare coffee
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: pot and filled it. That the harpooneers had headed the
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: sockets of their iron and filled them. That indeed, everything
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: was filled with sperm except the captain's pantaloons, pockets, and
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: those he reserved to thrust his hands into in self
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: complacent testimony of his entire satisfaction. As this glad ship
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: of good luck bore down upon the moody Peaquad, the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: barbarian sound of enormous drums came from her forecastle, and
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: drawing still nearer, a crowd of her men were seen
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: standing round her. Huge tripods, which covered with the parchment
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: like poke or stomach skin of the black fish, gave
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: forth a loud roar to every stroke of the clenched
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: hands of the crew. On the quarter deck, the mates
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: and harpooneers were dancing with the olive hued girls who
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: had eloped with them from the Polynesian aisles. While suspended
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: in an ornamented boat firmly secured aloft between the foremast
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: and the mainmast, three long island negroes with glittering fiddle
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: bows of whale ivory were presiding over the hilarious jig. Meanwhile,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: others of the ship's company were tumultuously busy at the
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: masonry of the tryworks, from which the huge pots had
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: been removed. You would have almost thought they were pulling
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: down the cursed bastile. Such wild cries they raised as
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the sea. Lord and Master over all this scene, the
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: captain stood a wreck on the ship's elevated quarter deck,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: so that the whole rejoicing drama was full before him
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and seemed merely contrived for his own individual diversion. And Ahab,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: he too was standing on his quarter deck, shaggy and
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: black with a stubborn gloom. And as the two ships
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: crossed each other's wakes, one all jubilations for things past,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: the other all forebodings as to things to come. Their
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: two captains in themselves, impersonated the whole striking contrast of
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: the scene. Come aboard, Come aboard, cried the gay bachelor's commander,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: lifting a glass and a bottle in the air. Hast
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: seen the white whale, gritted Ahab. In reply, No, only
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: heard of him, but don't believe in him at all,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: said the other, good humoredly, Come aboard, thou art too
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: damned jolly sail on, hast lost any man, not enough
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: to speak of two islanders, that's all. But come aboard,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: old heart, Come along, I'll soon take that black from
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: your brow. Come along, will you, marries? The play a
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: full ship and homeward bound? How wondrous familiar is a fool?
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Muttered Ahab, And then aloud, thou art a full ship
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: and homeward bound? Thou sayest, well, then call me an
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: empty ship, an outward bound. So go thy ways, and
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I will mine forward there, set all sail and keep
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: her to the wind. And thus, while the one ship
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: went cheerily before the breeze, the others stubbornly fought against it.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: And so the two vessels parted, the crew of the
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: pequad looking with grave, lingering glances toward the receding bachelor,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: but the bachelor's men, never heeding their gaze for the
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: lively revelry they were in. And as Ahab, leaning over
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: the taffrail, eyed the homeward bound craft, he took from
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: his pocket a small vial of sand, and then, looking
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: from the ship to the vial, seemed thereby bringing two
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: remote associations together, for that vial was filled with Nantucket's soundings.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Chapter one, sixteen, The Dying Whale. Not seldom in this life,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: when on the right side Fortune's favorite sail close by us,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: we though all a droop before catch somewhat of the
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: rushing breeze and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: So seamed it with the peaquad For next day, after
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: encountering the gay bachelor whales were seen and four were slain,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: and one of them by Ahab. It was far down
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the afternoon, and when all these spearings of the crimson
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: fight were done, and floating in the lovely sunset sea
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together. Then
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such in wreathing orisons
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: as if far over from the deep green convent valleys
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: of the Manila Isles, the Spanish land breeze wantonly turned
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: sailor had gone to sea. Freighted with these vesper hymns
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom. Ahab, who
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: final wanings from the now tranquil boat. For that strange
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying, the turning sunwards
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: of the head, and so expiring that strange spectacle beheld
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: of such a placid evening. Somehow to Ahab conveyed a
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: wondrousness unknown before he turns and turns into it, how
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: slowly but how steadfastly his homage renders ring an invoking brow.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: With his last dying motions, He too worships fire, most faithful,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: broad baronial vassal of the Sun. Oh, that these two
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: favoring eyes should see, these two favoring sights look here,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: far water locked beyond all hum of human weal or woe,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: in these most candid and impartial seas, where to traditions,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: no rocks furnished tablets, where for long Chinese ages the
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: billows have still rolled on, speechless and unspoken to as
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: stars that shine upon the Niger's unknown source. Here, too,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: life dies, Sun words full of faith, But see no
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: sooner dead than death whirls round the corpse, and it
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: heads some other way. Oh, thou dark Hindu half of nature,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: who have drowned bones, hast builded thy separate throne somewhere
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: in the heart of these unverdured seas. Thou art an infidel,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: thou queen, and too truly speakest to me in the
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: wide slaughtering typhoon and the hushed burial of its after calm,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Nor has this thy wail sunwards turn'd his dying head,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: and then gone round again without a lesson to me,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Oh trebly hooped and welded hip of power, O high
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: aspiring rainbowed jet that one strivest this one jettest all
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: in vain, in vain, o wail. Dost thou seek intercedings
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: with yon, all quickening sun that only calls forth life,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: but gives it not again. Yet dost thou darker hath
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: rock me with a prouder if a darker faith, All
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: thy unnameable imminglings float beneath me. Here I am buoyed
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: by breaths of once living things exhaled as air but
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: water Now then hail for ever, Hail, O sea, in
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: whose eternal tossings the wild fowl finds his only rest,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: born of earth, yet suckled by the sea, though hill
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: and valley mothered me. You billows are my foster brothers.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Chapter one, seventeen, The Whale Watch. The four whales slain
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: that evening had died wide apart, one far to windward,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: one less distant to leeward, one ahead, one astern. These
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: last three were brought alongside ere nightfall, but the windward
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: one could not be reached till morning, and the boat
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: that had killed it lay by its side all night.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: And that boat was Ahabs. The waf pole was thrust
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: upright into the dead whale spout hole, and the lantern
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: hanging from its top cast a troubled, flickering glare upon
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: the black, glossy back and far out upon the midnight waves,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: which gently chafed the whale's broad flank like soft surf
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: upon a beach. Ahab and all his boat's crew seemed asleep,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: but the Parsi, who crouching in the bow, sat watching
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: the sharks that spectrally played round the whale and tapped
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: the light cedar planks with their tails, a sound like
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: the moaning in squadrons over asphaltities of unforgiven ghosts of
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Gomorrah Ran shuddering through the air. Startled from his slumbers,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Ahab face to face, saw the Parsi, and hooped round.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: By the gloom of the night. They seemed the last
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: men in a flooded world. I have dreamed it again,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: said he of the hearses. Have I not said old man,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: that neither hearse nor coffin can be thine. And who
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: are hearsed that die on the sea. But I said,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: old Man, that ere thou couldst die on this voyage.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Two hearses must verily be seen by THEE on the sea,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: the first not made by mortal hands, and the visible
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: wood of the last one must be grown in America. Aye, Aye,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: a strange sight, that Parsi a hearse and its plumes
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: floating over the ocean with the waves. For the pall
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: bearers ha such a sight we shall not soon see,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: believe it or not. Thou canst not die till it
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: be seen, old man? And what was that saying about thyself?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: Though it come to the last, I shall still go
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: before thee, thy pilot. And when thou art so gone before,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: if that ever befall, then e'er I can follow. Thou
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: must still appear to me, to pilot me. Still was
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: it not so? Well? Then? Did I believe all ye say, o,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: my pilot, I have here two pledges that I shall
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: yet slay Moby Dick and survive it. Take another pledge,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: old man said the Parsi, as his eyes lighted up
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: like fireflies in the gloom. Hemp only can kill thee
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: the gallows. Ye mean, I am immortal. Then on land
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: and on sea, cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Immortal on land and on sea. Both were silent again
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: as one man. The gray dawn came on, and the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: slumbering crew arose from the boat's bottom, and ere noon
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: the dead whale was brought to the ship Chapter one eighteen.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: The quadrant. The season for the line at length drew near,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: and the eager mariners quickly run to the braces and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed on
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: the nailed to bloon, impatient for the order to point
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: the ship's prow for the equator. In good time, the
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: order came. It was hard upon high noon an Ahab,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: seated in the bows of his high hoisted boat, was
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: about taking his wonted daily observation of the sun to
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: determine his latitude. Now in that Japanese sea, the days
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: in summer are as freshets of effulgences, that unblinkingly vivid
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: immeasurable burning glass. The sky looks lacquered clouds, there are
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: none the horizon floats, and this nakedness of unrelieved radiance
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne. Well that
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Ahab's quadrant was furnished with colored glasses through which to
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: take sight of that solar fire. So, swinging his seated
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: form to the roll of the ship, and with his
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: astrological looking instrument placed to his eye, he remained in
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: that posture for some moments to catch the precise instant
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: when the sun should gain its precise meridian. Meantime, while
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: his whole attention was absorbed, the Parsi was kneeling beneath
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: him on that ship's deck, and with face thrown up
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: like Ahab's, was eyeing the same sun with him. Only
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: the lids of his eyes half hooded their orbs, and
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: his wild face was subdued to an earthly passionlessness. At length,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: the desired observation was taken, and with his pencil upon
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: his ivory leg, Ahab soon calculated what his life attitude
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: must be at that precise instant. Then, falling into a
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: moment's reverie, he again looked up towards the sun and
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: murmured to himself, Thou Sea Mark, thou high and mighty pilot.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Thou tellest me truly where I am. But canst thou
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: cast the least hint where I shall be? Or canst
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: thou tell where some other thing besides me is this
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: moment living? Where is Moby Dick this instant thou must
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: be eyeing him these eyes of mine look into the
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: very eye that is now beholding him ay, and into
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the eye that is even now equally beholding the objects
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: on the unknown thither side of thee. Thou son, then
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: gazing at his quadrant and handling one after the other
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: its numerous kabbalistical contrivances, he pondered again and muttered, foolish
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: toy babies, plaything of haughty admirals and commodores and captains.
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  Speaker 1: The world brags of thee of thy cunning and might.
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  Speaker 1: But what after all canst thou do but tell the poor,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: pitiful point where thou thyself happenst to be on this
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: wide planet. And the hand that holds thee. No, not
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: one jot more thou canst not tell where one drop
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: of water or one grain of sand will be tomorrow noon.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: And yet with thy impotence thou insultest the sun science.
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  Speaker 1: Curse THEE, Thou vain toy, and cursed be all the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: things that cast man's eyes aloft to that heaven whose
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: lie vividness but scorches him. As these old eyes are
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: even now scorched with thy light. O sun level by
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: nature to this Earth's horizon, are the glances of man's
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: eyes not shot from the crown of his head, as
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: if God had meant him to gaze on his firmament.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Curse THEE, thou quadrant, dashing it to the deck. No
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: longer will I guide my earthly way by THEE. The
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: level ship's compass, and the level dead reckoning, by log
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: and by line, these shall conduct me and show me
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: my place on the sea ay lighting from the boat
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: to the deck. Thus I trample on THEE, thou paltry
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: thing that feebly pointests on high. Thus I split and
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: destroy THEE, as the frantic old man thus spoke, and
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: thus trampled with his live and dead feet a sneering
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: triumph that seemed meant for Ahab, and a fatalistic despair
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: that seemed meant for himself. These passed over the mute,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: motionless Parsi's face. Unobserved, he rose and glided away, while
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: awe struck by the aspect of their commander. The seamen
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: clustered together on the forecastle till Ahab, troubledly pacing the deck,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: shouted out to the braces up helm square in. In
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: an instant, the yards swung round, and as the ship
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: half wheeled upon her heel, her three firm, seated, graceful
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: masts erectly poised upon her long ribbed hull, seemed as
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: the three Horatii pirouetting on one sufficient steed, standing between
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: the nightheads. Starbuck watched the Peaquad's tumultuous way, and Ahabs also,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: as he went lurching along the deck. I have sat
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: before dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: of its tormented, flaming life. And I have seen it
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: wane at last down down to dumbest dust, old man
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: of oceans. Of all this fiery life of thine, what
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: will at length remain but one little heap of ashes,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: I cried, Stubb, But see coal ashes, mind you that,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: mister Starbuck, see coal, not your common charcoal. Well well,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: I heard Ahab mutter. Here someone thrust these cards into
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: these old hands of mine, swears I must play them
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: and no others hand. Damn me, Ahab, But thou actest right,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: live in the game and die in it. End of
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Chapters one fourteen to one eighteen, Chapters one nineteen to
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: one twenty three, Chapter one nineteen. The candles warmest climbs,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: but nurse the cruelest fangs. The tiger of Bengal crouches
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure skies, the most effulgent,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: but basket the deadliest thunders. Gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: never swept northern lands, So too is it that in
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: these resplendent Japanese sees, the mariner encounters the direst of
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: all storms, the typhoon. It will sometimes burst out of
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: that cloudless sky like an exploding bomb upon a dazed
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: and sleepy town. Towards evening of that day, the Peaquad
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: was torn of her canvas, and bare Pold was left
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: to fight a typhoon which had struck her directly ahead.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: When darkness came on, sky and sea roared and split
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: with the thunder and blazed with the lightning that showed
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: the disabled mass fluttering here and there, with the rags
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: which the first fury of the tempest had left for
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: its after sport, holding by a shroud. Starbuck was standing
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: on the quarter deck at every flash of the lightning,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: glancing aloft to see what additional disaster might have befallen
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: the intricate hamper there while Stub and Flask were directing
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: the men in the higher hoisting and firmer lashing of
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: the boats, but all their pains seemed not Though lifted
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: to the very top of the cranes, the windward quarter
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: boat Ahabs did not escape a great rolling sea. Dashing
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: high up against the reeling ship's high teetering side, stove
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: in the boat's bottom at the stern and left it again,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: all dripping through like a sieve. Bad work, bad work,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: mister Starbuck, said Stubb, regarding the wreck. But the sea
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: will have its way, Stub, for one can't fight it.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: You see, mister Starbuck, a wave has such a great
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: long start before it leaps all around the world. It
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: runs and then comes the spring. But as for me,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: all the start I have to meet it is just
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: across the deck here. But never mind, it's all in fun.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: So the old song says sings, Oh jolly is the gale,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: and a joker is the whale, a flourish in his tail.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: Such a funny, sporty gamy, jesty, jokey, hokey pokey Lad.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Is the ocean o the scud all a flyin that's
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: his flip, only foeman when he stirs in the spicing.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: Such a funny, sporty gamy, jesty, jokey, hokey pokey Lad.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Is the ocean. No thunder splits the ship, but he
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: only smacks his lips a tastin' of this flip. Such
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: a funny sporty gamy jesty, jokey, hokey pokey Lad. Is
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: the ocean. No a vast stub cried starbuck Let the
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: typhoon sing and strike his harp here in our rigging.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: But if thou art a brave man, thou wilt hold
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: thy peace mad. I'm not a brave man, never said
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: I was a brave man. I am a coward and
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I sing to keep up my spirits. Man, I'll tell
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: you what it is, mister Starbuck. There's no way to
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: And when that's done, ten to one, I sing you
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: the doxology for a wind up madman, look through my eyes.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: If thou hast none of thine own what how can
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: you see better of a dark night than anybody else?
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: Never mind? How foolish? Here, cried Starbuck, seizing stub by
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: the shoulder and pointing his hand towards the weather bow.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: Mark'st thou not that the gale comes from the eastward.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: The very coarse ahab is to run from moby Dick,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: the very course he swung to this day noon. Now
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: mark his boat. There? Where is that stove in the stern?
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: Sheet's man? Where he is wont to stand? His standpoint?
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Is stove? Man? Now jump overboard and sing away. If
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: thou must, I don't half understand ye? What's in the wind? Yes? Yes,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: round the Cape of Good Hope is the shortest way
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: to Nantucket, soliloquized Starbuck, suddenly heedless of Stubb's question. The
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: gale that now hammers at us to stave us. We
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: can turn it into a fair wind that will drive
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: us towards home. Yonder to windward is all blackness of doom.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: But to leward homeward, I see it lightens up there,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: but not with the lightning. At that moment, in one
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: of the intervals of profound darkness following the flashes, a
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: voice was heard at his side, and almost at the
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: same instant, a volley of thunder peels rolled overhead. Who's there,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: all thunder? Said Ahab, groping his way along the bulwarks
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: to his pivot hole, but suddenly finding his path made
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: plain to him by elbowed lances of fire. Now, as
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: the lightning rod to aspire on shore is intended to
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: carry off the perilous fluid into the soil, so the
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: kindred rod, which at sea some ships carry to each mast,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: is intended to conduct it into the water. But as
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: this conductor must ascend to considerable depth that its end
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: may avoid all contact with the hull, And as moreover,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: if kept constantly towing there, it would be liable to
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: many mishaps, besides interfering not a little with some of
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: the rigging, and more or less impeding the vessel's way
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: in the water. Because of all this, the lower parts
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: of a ship's lightning rods are not always overboard, but
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: are generally made in long, slender links, so as to
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: be the more readily hauled up into the chains outside
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: or thrown down into the sea as occasion may require.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: The rods the rods, cried Starbuck to the crew, suddenly
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: admonished to vigilance by the vivid lightning that had just
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: been darting Flambeaux to light Ahab to his post. Are
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: they overboard? Drop them over fore and aft quick? A
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: vast cried Ahab. Let's have fair play here, though we
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: be the weaker side. Yet I'll contribute to raise rods
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: on the Himalayas and andes that all the world may
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: be secured, but out on privileges, let them be, sir.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Look aloft, cried Starbuck. The corpussance, the corpuissants. All the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: yard arms were tipped with a pallid fire and touched
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: at each tri pointed lightning rod end with three tapering
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: white flames. Each of the three tall masts was silently
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: burning in that sulfurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: before an altar blast the boat, let it go, cried
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: stub at this instant as a swashing sea. Heaved up
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: under his own little craft, so that its gunwale violently
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: jammed his hand as he was passing a lashing blast it,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: but slipping backwards on the deck, his uplifted eyes caught
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: the flames, and, immediately shifting his tone, he cried, the corpusance,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: have mercy on us all to sailors, oaths, sir household
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: words they will swear in the trance of the calm,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: and in the teeth of the tempest. They will imprecate
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: curses from the topsail yard arms when most they teeter
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: over to a seething sea. But in all my voyagings,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: seldom have I heard a common oath. When God's burning
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: finger has been laid upon the ship, when his mine
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: mine tekel upharsine has been woven into the shrouds and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the cordage. While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: were heard from the enchanted crew, who, in one thick cluster,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars, relieved
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: against the ghostly light. The gigantic jet Negro Dagou loomed
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: up to thrice his real stature, and seamed the black
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: cloud from which the thunder had come. The parted mouth
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: of Tashtego revealed his sharp white teeth, which strangely gleamed
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: as if they too had been tipped by corpus ants.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: While lit up by the preternatural light, quiqu figs tattooing
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: burned like satanic blue flames on his body. The tableau
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: all waned at last with the pallidness aloft, and once
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: more the Pea quad and every soul on her decks
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: were wrapped in a pall. A moment or two passed
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: when Starbuck, going forward, pushed against someone. It was stub
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: What thinkest thou? Now? Man? I heard thy cry? It
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: was not the same in the song. No it wasn't,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: I said. The Corpuissance have mercy on us all, and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: I hope they will still. But do they only have
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: mercy on long faces? Have they no bowels or a laugh?
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: And look you, mister Starbuck, But it's too dark for
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: a look, hear me. Then I take that mast head
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: flame we saw for a sign of good luck for
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: those masks are rooted in a hole that is going
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: to be choc a block with sperm oil. D'y you see,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: and so all that sperm oil will work up into
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: the masts like sap in a tree. Yes, our three
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: masks will yet be as three spermaceti candles. That's the
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: good promise we saw. At that moment, Starbuck caught sight
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: of Stubb's face slowly beginning to glimmer into sight. Glancing upwards,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: he cried, see see, And once more the high tapering
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled supernaturalness in their pallor.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: The corpuissants have mercy on us, all, cried Stub again.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: and the flame, the Parsi was kneeling in Ahab's front,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: but with his head bowed away from him. While near by,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: from the arched and overhanging rigging where they had just
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: been engaged in securing a spar, a number of the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: seamen arrested by the glare now cohered together and hung
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: pendulous like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: orchard twig in various enchanted attitudes, like the standing or
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: stepping or running skeletons in her eculaneum. Others remained rooted
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: to the deck, but all their eyes upcast. Aye aye, man, cried, ahab,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: look up at it, mark it well, the white flame,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: but lights the way to the white whil hand me
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: those main mass links there, I would fain feel this pulse,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: and let mine beat against it, blood against fire. So then,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: turning the last link held fast in his left hand,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: he put his foot upon the parsi, and with fixed
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: upward eye and high flung right arm, he stood erect
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: before the lofty, tri pointed trinity of flames. Oh, Thou
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: clear Spirit of clear fire, whom on these seas, I,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: as Persian once did worship, till in the Sacramental Act,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: so burned by THEE, that to this hour I bear
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: the scar. I now know THEE, Thou Clear Spirit. Thou
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: know that thy right worship is defiance to neither love
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: nor reverence. Wilt thou be kind and he and for
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: hate thou canst but kill, and all are killed. No
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: fearless fool now fronts THEE. I own thy speechless, placeless power.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: But to the last gasp of my earthquake life will
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me. In the midst
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: of thee personified impersonal A personality stands here, though but
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: a point at best, whencesoever I came, whence soe'er I go.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: Yet while I earthly live, the queenly personality lives in
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: me and feels her royal rights. But war is pain
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: and hate is woe. Come in thy lowest form of love,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: and I will kneel and kiss thee. But at thy
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: highest come as mere supernal power. And though thou launchest
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: naves of full freighted way worlds, there's that in here
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: that still remains indifferent. Oh thou clear spirit of thy fire.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: Thou madest me, And like a true child of fire,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: I breathe it back to thee. Sudden repeated flashes of lightning,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: the nine flames leap lengthwise to thrice their previous height.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: Ahab with the rest, closes his eyes, his right hand
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: pressed hard upon them. I own thy speechless placeless power,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: said I. Not so, nor was it wrung from me,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Nor do I now drop these links. Thou canst blind,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: but I can then grope. Thou canst consume, But I
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: can then be ashes take the homage of these poor
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: eyes and shut her hands. I would not take it.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: The lightning flashes through my skull, mine eyeballs, ache, and ache.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: My whole beaten brain seems as beheaded and rolling on
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: some stunning ground. Oh oh, yet blindfold Yet will I
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: talk to thee light? Though thou be Thou leapest out
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: of darkness, But I am darkness, leaping out of light,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: leaping out of thee. The javelins cease, open eyes see
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: or not there burn the flames, O thou magnanimous. Now
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: I do glory in my genealogy. But thou art but
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: my fiery father, my sweet mother, I know not, oh cruel,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: what hast thou done with her? There lies my puzzle.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: But thine is greater. Thou knowest not how came ye,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: hence callest thyself unbegotten. Certainly knowest not thy beginning. Hence
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: callest thyself unbegun. I know that of me which thou
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: knowest not of thyself. Oh thou omnipotent. There is some
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: thy eternity is but time. All thy creativeness mechanical through thee,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: thy flaming self. My scorched eyes do dimly see it.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: Oh thou foundling fire, Thou hermit immemorial, Thou too hast
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief. Here again with haughty agony,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: I read, my sire, leap, leap up, and lick the sky.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: I leap with thee. I burn with THEE. Would fain
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: be welded with thee? Defyingly? I worship thee. The boat
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: the boat, cried Starbuck, look at thy boat. Old man
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: Aheb's harpoon, the one forged at Perth's fire, remained firmly
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: lashed in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: his whale boat's bow. But the sea that had stove
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: its bottom had caught, caused the loose leather sheath to
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: drop off, and from the keen steel barb there now
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: came a leveled flame of pale, forked fire. As the
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: silent harpoon burned there like a serpent's tongue, Starbuck grasped
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: ahab by the arm. God God is against the old man,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: forbear tis an ill voyage, ill begun, Ill continued, Let
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: me square the yards, while we may, old man and
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: make a fair wind of it homewards to go on
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: a better voyage than this. Overhearing Starbuck, the panic stricken
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: crew instantly ran to the braces, though not a sail
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: was left aloft. For the moment, all the aghast mate's
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: thoughts seemed theirs. They raised a half mutinous cry, but
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: dashing the rattling lightning links to the deck and snatching
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: the burning harpoon, Ahab waved it like a torch among them,
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  Speaker 1: swearing to transfix with it. The first sailor that but
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: cast lie goose a rope's end, petrified by his aspect,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: and still more shrinking from the fiery dart that he held.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: The men fell back in dismay, and Ahab again spoke,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: all your oaths to hunt the white whale are as
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: binding as mine, and heart, soul and body, lungs and life.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: Old Ahab is bound, And that ye may know to
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: what tune this heart beats, Look ye hear, thus I
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: blow out the last fear, and with one blast of
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: his breath he extinguished the flame, as in the hurricane
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: that sweeps the plain men fly the neighborhood of some lone,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: gigantic elm, whose very height and strength, but render it
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: so much the more unsafe, because so much the more
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: a mark for thunderbolts. So at those last words of Ahabs,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: many of the mariners did run from him in a
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: terror of dismay. Chapter one twenty. The deck, towards the
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: end of the first night, watch Ahab standing by the helm,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Starbuck approaching him. We must send down the main topsail yard. Sir,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: the band is working loose, and the lee lift is
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: half stranded. Shall I strike it, sir, Strike nothing, lash it.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: If I had skysail poles, i'd sway them up now, sir,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: in God's name, sir. Well the anchors are working, sir.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: Shall I get them in board? Strike nothing and stir nothing,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: but lash everything. The wind rises, but it has not
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: got up to my table lands yet. Quick and see
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: to it by masts and keels. He takes me for
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: the hunchbacked skipper of some coasting smack. Send down my
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: main topsail yard, Hugh glue pots. Loftiest trucks were made
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: for wildest wins, and this brain truck of mine now
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: sails amid the cloud scud? Shall I strike that? Oh?
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: None but cowards send down their brain trucks in tempest time?
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: What a HOORU shall off there? I would even take
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: it for sublime? Did I not know that the colic
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: is a noisy malady? Oh? Take medicine, Take medicine. Chapter one,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: twenty one midnight the forecastle bulwarks stub and flask mounted
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: on them, and passing additional lashings over the anchors there
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: hanging no stub. You may pound that not there as
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: much as you please, but you will never pound into
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: me what you were just now saying. And how long
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: ago is it since you said the very contrary? Didn't
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: you once say that whatever ship Ahab sails in, that
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy, just
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: as though it were loaded with powder, barrels aft and
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: box of lucifers. Forward? Stop now, didn't you say so? Well?
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: Suppose I did? What? Then I've part changed my flesh
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: since that time? Why not my mind? Besides supposing we
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: are loaded with powder, barrels aft and lucifers forward, how
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: the devil should the lucifers get a fire in this
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: drenching spray here? Why my little man, you have pretty
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: red hair, but you couldn't get a fire. Now shake
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: yourself you're aquarius or the water bearer flask might fill
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: pictures at your coat collar. Don't you see then, that
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: for these extra risks, the marine insurance companies have extra guarantees.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: Here are hydrants, flask. But hark again. Then I'll answer
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: you the other thing. First, take your leg off from
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: the crown of the anchor here though, so I can
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: pass the rope. Now listen, what's the mighty difference between
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: holding a mass lightning rod in the storm and standing
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: close by a mass that hasn't got any lightning rod
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: at all? Storm? Don't you see, you timberhead, that no
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: harm can come to the holder of the rod unless
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: the mast is first struck. What are you talking about? Then?
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: Not one ship and one hundred carries rods, and ahab
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: I man and all of us were in no more
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: danger then, in my poor opinion, than all the crews
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: in ten thousand ships now sailing the seas. Why you
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: king post you, I suppose would have every man in
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: the world go about with a small lightning rod running
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: up the corner of his hat like a militia officer's
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: skewered feather and trailing behind like his sash. Why don't
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: you be sensible, Flask? It's easy to be sensible. Why
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: don't you then? Any man with half an eye can
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: be sensible. I don't know that stub. You sometimes find
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: it rather hard. Yes, when a fellow's soaked through, it's
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: hard to be sensible, that's a fact. And I am
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: about drenched with this spray. Never mind, catch the turn
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: there and pass. It seems to me we are lashing
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: down these anchors now, as if they were never going
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: to be used again. Tying these two anchors here a
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: flask seems like tying a man's hands behind him. And
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: what big generous hands they are. To be sure these
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: are your iron fists. Eh, what a hold they have too.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: I wonder if Flask whether the world is anchored anywhere.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: If she is, she swings with an uncommon long cable
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: though there hammerre that not down, and we're done so
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: next to touching land, lighting on deck is most satisfactory.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: I say, just wring out my jacket's skirts, will you
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: thank you? They laugh at long togs, so Flask, But
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: it seems to me a long tailed coat ought always
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: to be worn in storms afloat The tails tapering down
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: that way serve to carry off the water. Do you
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: see same with cocked hats, the cocks formed gable and
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: eave troughs, flasks. No more monkey jackets and tarpaulns. For me,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: I must mount a swallowtail and drive down a beaver.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: So hello, whew, there goes my tarpaulin overboard. Lord Lord,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: that the winds that come from heaven should be so unmannerly.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: This is a nasty night lad Chapter one twenty two,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: midnight aloft, thunder and lightning, the main topsail yard tash tago,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: passing new lashings around it. Um um um, stop that
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: thunder plenty too much thunder up here? What's the use
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: of thunder? Um um um. We don't want thunder, we
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: want rum. Give us a glass of rum um um um.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: Chapter one twenty three The musket. During the most violent
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: shocks of the typhoon, the man at the Peaquad's jawbone
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: tiller had several times been feelingly hurled to the deck
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: by its spasmodic motions, even though prevent tackles had been
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: attached to it, for they were slack because some play
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: to the tiller was indispensable. In a severe gale like this,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: it is by no means uncommon to see the needles
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: in the compasses at intervals go round and round. It
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: was thus with the peaquads at almost every shock. The
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: helmsman had not failed to notice the whirling velocity with
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: which they revolved upon the cards. It is a sight
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: that hardly anyone can behold without some sort of unwonted emotion.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: Some hours after midnight, the typhoon abated so much that
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: through these strenuous exertions of starbuck and stub, one engaged
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: forward and the other aft. The shivered remnants of the
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: jib and fore and main topsails were cut adrift from
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: the spars, and when eddying away to leeward, like the
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: feathers of an albatross, which sometimes cast to the winds
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: when that storm tossed bird is on the wing. The
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: three corresponding new sails were now bent and reefed, and
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: a storm trysail was set further aft, so that the
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: ship soon went through the water with some precision again,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: and the course for the present east southeast, which he
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: was to steer, if practicable, was once more given to
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: the helmsman, for during the violence of the gale he
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: had only steered according to its vicissitudes. But as he
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: was now bringing the ship as near her course as possible,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: watching the compass needle, meanwhile lo a good sign. The
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: wind seemed coming round astern Aye, the foul breeze became fair.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: Instantly the yards were squared to the lively song of
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: Hoe the fair wind, Oh ye, Hoe, cheerily men, the
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: so soon have falsified the evil portence preceding it. In
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: compliance with the standing order of his commander to report
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: immediately and at any one of the twenty four hours,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: any decided change in the affairs of the deck, Starbuck
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: had no sooner trimmed the yards to the breeze, however
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: reluctantly and gloomily than he mechanically went below to apprize
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: Captain Ahab of the circumstance. Ere knocking at his stateroom door,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: he involuntarily paused before it a moment. The cabin lamp
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: taking long swings this way and that was burning fitfully
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: and casting fitful shadows upon the old man's bolted door,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: a thin one with fixed blinds inserted in place of
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: upper panels. The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: round by all the roar of the elements. The loaded
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed as they stood
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: upright against the forward bulkhead. Starbuck was an honest, upright man,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: but out of Starbuck's heart at that instant when he
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: saw the muskets there, strangely evolved an evil thought, but
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: so blent with its neutral or good accompaniments, that for
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: the instant he hardly knew it for itself. He would
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: have shot me. Once he murmured, Yes, there's the very
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: musket that he pointed at me, that one with the
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: studded stock. Let me touch it. Lift it. Strange that I,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: who have handled so many deadly lances. Strange that I
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: should shake so now loaded. I must see aye, aye,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: and powder in the pan that's not good, best spilet. Wait,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: I'll cure myself of this. I'll hold the musket boldly
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: while I think I come to report a fair wind
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: to him? But how fair? Fair for death and doom?
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: That fair for Moby Dick. It's a fair wind, that's
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: only fair for that accursed fish. The very tube he
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: pointed at me, the very one, this one I hold
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: it here, He would have killed me with the very
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: thing I handle now, aye, And he would fain kill
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: all his crew. Does he not say that he will
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: not strike his spars to any gale? Has he not
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: dashed his heavenly quadrant? And in these same perilous seas
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: gropes he not his way by mere dead reckoning of
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: the error abounding log? And in this very typhoon? Did
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: he not swear that he would have no lightning rods?
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him? Yes?
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: It would make him the wilful murderer of thirty men
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: and more if this ship come to any deadly harm,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: and come to deadly harm, my soul swears this ship
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: will if Ahab have his way. If then he were
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: this instant put aside, that crime would not be his ha?
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: Is he muttering in his sleep? Yes, just there in
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: there he's sleeping, sleeping ay, but still alive and soon
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: awake again. I can't withstand thee old man, not reasoning,
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: not remonstrance, not entreaty. Wilt thou hearken to all this?
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: Thou scornest flat obedience to thy own flat commands. This
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: is all thou breathest Ay, and sayest the men have
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: vowed thy vow, sayest all of us are ahabs, Great
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: God forbid. But is there no other way, no lawful way,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: make him a prisoner to be taken home? What hope
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: to rest this old man's living power from his own
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: living hands? Only a fool would try it. Say you
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: were pinioned, even knotted all over with ropes and hawsers,
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: chained down to ring bolts on his cabin floor, he
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: would be more hideous than a caged tiger. Then I
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: could not endure the sight, could not possibly fly his howlings,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: all comfort, sleep itself inestimable reason would leave me on
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: the long intolerable voyage. What then remains the land is
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: hundreds of leagues away and locked Japan. The nearest I
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: stand alone, here upon an open sea, with two oceans
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: and a whole continent between me and law aye, ay
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: tis So is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: A would be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: skin together? And would I be a murderer? Then? If
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: and slowly, stealthily and half sideways looking, he placed the
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: loaded musket's end against the door on this level, Ahab's
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: hammock swings within his head. This way a touch, and
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: Oh Mary, Mary, boy, boy boy, But if I wake
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: thee not to death? Old man? Who can tell to
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: what unsounded deeps Starbuck's body this day? Week may sink
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: with all the crew, Great God, where art thou shall
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: I shall I? The wind has gone down and shifted, Sir,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: The fore and main topsails are reefed and set she
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: heads her course stern all, Oh Moby dick, I clutch
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: thy heart. At last, Such were the sounds that now
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: came hurtling from out the old man's tormented sleep, as
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: if Starbuck's voice had caused a long dumb dream to speak.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: The yet leveled musket shook like a drunkard's arm against
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: the panel. Starbucks seemed wrestling with an angel, but turning
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: from the door. He placed the death tube in its
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: rack and left the place. He's too sound a sleep,
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: mister Stubb. Go thou down and wake him and tell
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: him I must see to the deck here thou knowest
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: what to say. End of Chapters one nineteen to one
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: twenty three, Chapters one hundred twenty four to one hundred
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, Chapter one hundred twenty four The Needle. Next morning,
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: the not yet subsided sea rolled in long, slow billows
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: of mighty bulk, and striving in the Peaquad's gurgling track
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: pushed her on like giants, palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: breeze abounded, so that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: The whole world boomed before the wind muffled. In the
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: the spread intensity of his place, where his bayonet rays
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: moved on in stacks emblazonings as of crowned Babylonian kings
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: and queens reigned over everything. The sea was as a
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: crucible of molten gold that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: Long maintaining an enchanted silence, ahab stood apart and every
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: time the teetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit he
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: turned to eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead, And
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: when she profoundly settled by the stern, he turned behind
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: and saw the sun's rearward place, and how the same
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: yellow rays were blending with his undeviating wake. Ha ha,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: my ship, thou mightest well be taken now for the
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: sea chariot of the sun. Ho, ho, all ye nations
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: before my prow, I bring the sun to ye yoke
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: on the further billows. Hello a tandem, I drive the sea.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: But suddenly reined back by some counterthought. He hurried towards
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading east southeast? Sir,
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: said the frightened steersman, thou liest, smiting him with his
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: clenched fist, heading east at this hour in the morning,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: and the sun astern. Upon this, every soul was confounded,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: for the phenomenon just then observed by Ahab had unaccountably
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: escaped everyone else, but its very blinding palpableness must have
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: been the cause. Thrusting his head halfway into the binnacle,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: Ahab caught one glimpse of the compasses his uplifted arm
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: slowly fell. For a moment he almost seemed to stagger.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: Standing behind him, Starbuck looked and lo, the two compasses
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: pointed east, and the pea quad was as infallibly going west.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: But ere the first wild alarm could get out abroad
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: among the crew, the old man, with a rigid laugh, exclaimed,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: I have it. It has happened before, mister Starbuck. Last
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: night's thunder turned our compasses. That's all thou hast before
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: now heard of such a thing. I take it, aye,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: But never before has it happened to me, sir, said
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: the pale mate gloomily. Here it must needs be said
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: that accidents like this have in more than one case
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: occurred to ships in violent storms. The magnetic energy as
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: developed in the mariner's needle is, as all know, essentially
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: one with the electricity beheld in heaven. Hence it is
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: not to be much marveled at that such things should
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: be instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: so as to smite down some of these spars and rigging.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: The effect upon the needle has at times been still
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: more fatal, all its load stone virtue being annihilated, so
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: that the before magnetic steel was of no more use
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: than an old wife's knitting needle. But in either case
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: the needle never again of itself recovers the original virtue
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: thus marred or lost. And if the binnacle compasses be affected,
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: the same fate reaches all the others that may be
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: in the ship, even were the lower most one inserted
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: into the Kelson. Deliberately standing before the binnacle and eyeing
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: the transpointed compasses, the old man, with the sharp of
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: his extended hand, now took the precise bearing of the sun, and,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: satisfied that the needle were exactly inverted, shouted out his
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: orders for the ship's course to be changed. Accordingly, the
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: yards were hard up, and once more the peaquad thrust
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: her undaunted bows into the opposing wind, for the supposed
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: fair one had only been juggling her. Meanwhile, whatever were
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: his own secret thoughts, Starbucks said nothing, but quietly he
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: issued all requisite orders, while Stubb and Flask, who in
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: some small degree seemed then to be sharing his feelings,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: likewise unmurmuringly acquiesced. As for the men, though some of
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: them lowly rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: their fear of fate. But as ever before the pagan
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed, or if impressed, it was
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial hearts
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: from inflexible Ahabs for a space. The old man walked
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: the deck in rolling reveries, but chananeing to slip with
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: his ivory heel, he saw the crushed copper site tubes
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: of the quadrant he had the day before dashed to
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: the deck. Thou, poor proud heaven gazer and son's pilot.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: Yesterday I wrecked thee and today the compasses would fain
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: have wrecked me. So so, but Ahab is lord over
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: the level loadstone. Yet, mister Starbuck, a lance without a pole,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: a top mall, and the smallest of the sail maker's needles,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: quick accessory. Perhaps to the impulse dictating the thing he
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: was now about to do, were certain prudential motives whose
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: object might have been to revive the spirits of his
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: crew by a stroke of his subtle skill in a
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses. Besides,
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: the old man well knew that to steer by transpointed needles,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: though clumsily practicable, was not a thing to be passed
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: over by superstitious sailors without some shudderings and evil portents, men,
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: handed him the things he had demanded. My men, the
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: thunder turned old Ahab's needles. But out of this bit
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: of steel, Ahab can make one of his own that
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: will point as true as any. Abashed glances of servile
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: wonder were exchanged by the sailors as this was said,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: and with fascinated eyes they awaited whatever magic might follow,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: But Starbuck looked away. With a blow from the top mall,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: Ahab knocked off the steel head of the lance, and then,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: handing to the mate the long iron rod remaining, bade
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: him hold it upright without its touching the deck. Then
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: with the mall, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: top of it, and less strongly hammered that several times.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: The mate, still holding the rod as before, then going
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: through some small strange motions with it, whether indispensable to
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: the magnetizing of the steel or merely intended to augment
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: the awe of the crew is uncertain. He called for
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: linen thread, and, moving to the binnacle, slipped out the
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: two reversed needles there, and horizontally suspended the sail needle
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: by its middle over one of the compass cards. At
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: first the steel went round and round, quivering and vibrating
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: at either end, but at last it settled to its place.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: When Ahab, who had been intently watching for this result,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: stepped frankly back from the binnacle, and, pointing his stretched
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: arm towards it, exclaimed, look you for yourselves. If Ahab
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: be not lord of the level loadstone, the sun is east,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: and that compass swears it. One after another they peered
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: in nothing but their own eyes could persuade such ignorance
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: as theirs, and one after another they slunk away. In
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph. You then saw
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: Ahab in all his fatal pride. Chapter one, twenty five.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: The log and Line. While now the faded Peaquad had
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: been so long afloat this voyage, the log and line
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: had but very seldom been in use, owing to a
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: confident reliance on other means of determining the vessel's place.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: Some merchantmen and many whalemen, especially when cruising, wholly neglect
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: to heave the log, though at the same time and
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: frequently more for form's sake than anything else, regularly putting
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: down upon the customary slate the course steered by the ship,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: as well as the presumed average rate of progression every hour.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: It had thus been with the Peaquod, the wooden res
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: an angular log attached hung long, untouched, just beneath the
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: railing of the after bulwarks, rains and spray had damped it,
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: sun and wind had warped it. All the elements had
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: combined to rot a thing that hung so idly but
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: heedless of all this. His mood seized Ahab as he
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: happened to glance upon the reel not many hours after
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: the magnet scene, and he remembered how his quadrant was
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: no more, and recalled his frantic oath about the level
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: log and line. The ship was sailing plungingly astern. The
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: billows rolled in riots forward. There heave the log. Two
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: seamen came, the golden hued Tahitian and the grisly manksmen
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: take the reel. One of ye I'll heave. They went
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: towards the extreme stern on the ship's lee side, where
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: the deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: now almost dipping into the creamy, sidelong rushing sea. The
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: manksmen took the reel, and holding it high up by
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: the projecting handle ends of the spindle round which the
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: spool of line revolved, so stood with the angular log
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: hanging downwards till Ahab advanced to him. Ahab stood before
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: him and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty turns
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: to form a preliminary hand coil to toss overboard, when
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: the old Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: the line, made bold to speak, Sir, I mistrust it.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: This line looks far gone. Long heat and wet have
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: spoiled it. Toill hould old gentlemen, Long heat and wet
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: have they spoiled thee? Thou seem'st to hold? Or truer,
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: perhaps life holds thee, not thou it I hold the spool, sir.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: But just as my captain says, with these gray hairs
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: of mind, tis not worth worth while disputing, specially with
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: the superior, who'll ne'er confess what's that there? Now's a
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: patched professor in Queen Nature's granite founded college. But methinks
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: he's too subservient. Where wert thou born in the little
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: rocky isle of Man, Sir? Excellent? Thou'st hit the world
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: by that? I know not, sir, But I was born
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: there in the Isle of Man. Hey, Well the other
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: way it's good. Here's a man from Man, a man
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: born in once independent Man and now unmanned of Man,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: which is sucked in by what up with the reel?
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: The dead blind wall butts all inquiring heads at last
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: up with it? So the log was heaved, The loose
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: coils rapidly straightened out in a long, dragging line astern
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: and then instantly the reel began to whirl in turns, jerkingly,
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: raised and lowered by the rolling billows. The towing resistance
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: of the log caused the old realman to stagger strangely,
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: hold hard snap. The overstrained line sagged down in one
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: long festoon. The tugging log was gone. I crush the quadrant.
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: The thunder turns the needles, and now the mad sea
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: parts the log line. But ahab can mend all haul
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: in there Tahitian. Reel up, manksmen, and look ye. Let
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: the carpenter make another log and mend thou the line.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: See to it there he goes. Now to him, nothing's happened,
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: But to me the skewer seems loosening out of the
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: middle of the world. Haul in, haul in, Tahitian. These
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: lines run whole and whirling out, come in, broken and
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: dragging slow. Ha, Pip, come to help, eh, Pip, Pip?
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: Whom call ye Pip? Pip jump from the whale boat.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: Pip's missing. Let's see now if you haven't fished him
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: up here, fisherman, it drags hard. I guess he's holding on.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: Jerk him to Heitie, jerk him off. We haul in
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: no cowards here. Ho, there's his arm, just breaking water.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: A hatchet, a hatchet, cut it off. We haul in
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: no cowards here, Captain Ahab, Sir, Sir, here's Pip trying
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: to get on board again. Peace thou, crazy loon, cried
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: the manksman, seizing him by the arm. Away from the
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: quarter deck. The greater idiot ever, scolds the lesser, muttered Ahab,
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: advancing hands off from that holiness, Where sayest thou Pip
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: was boy a stern there, sir a stern lo lo,
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: And who art thou boy? I see not my reflection
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: in the vacant pupils of thy eyes. Oh God, that
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: man should be a thing for immortal souls to siv through.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: Who art thou boy, bell boy, Sir, ship's crier, ding
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: Dong Ding Pip, Pip, Pip one hundred pounds of clay
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: reward for Pip five feet high? Looks cowardly, quickest known
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: by that ding dong Ding? Who's seen Pip the coward?
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: There can be no hearts above the snow line, Oh,
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: your frozen heavens, look down here ye did beget this
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: luckless child and have abandoned him? You creative libertines. Here boy,
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: Ahab's cabin shall be Pip's home henceforth while Ahab lives,
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: Thou touchest my innermost center. Boy, thou art tied to
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: me by cords woven of my heart strings. Come, let's down.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: What's this? Here's velvet shark skin? Intently gazing at Ahab's
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: hand and feeling it. Ah now had poor Pip but
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: felt so kind a thing as this. Perhaps he had
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: never been lost. This seems to me, sir, as a
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: man rope, something that weak souls may hold by, Oh sir,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: let old perth. Now come and rivet these two hands together,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: the black one with the white. For I will not
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: let this go, oh boy, nor will I thee, unless
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: I should thereby drag thee to worse horrors than are here.
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: Come then to my cabin. Lo, ye believers in God's
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: all goodness and in man all ill low you see
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: the omniscio, and God's oblivious of suffering man, and man,
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: though idiotic and knowing not what he does, yet full
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: of the sweet things of love and gratitude. Come. I
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand than though
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: I had grasped an emperor's. There go two daft ones,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: now muttered the old manksman, one daft with strength, the
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: other daft with weakness. But here's the end of the
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: rotten line, all dripping to mend it, Eh, I think
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: we had best have a new line altogether. I'll see
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: mister Stubb about it. Chapter one hundred twenty six. The
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: life Boy steering now southeastward by Ahab's leveled steel, and
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: her progress solely determined by Ahab's level log and line.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: The peaquad held on her path towards the making so
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: and erelong sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds over waves
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: monotonously mild. All these seemed the strange calm things, preluding
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: some riotous and desperate scene. At last, when the ship
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: drew near to the outskirts, as it were, of the
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: equatorial fishing ground, and in the deep darkness that goes
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: before the dawn, was sailing by a cluster of rocky islets,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: the watch, then headed by Flask, was startled by a
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: cry so plaintively wild and unearthly, like half articulated wailings
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: of the ghosts of all Herod's murdered innocence, that one
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: and all they started from their reveries, and for the
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: space of some moments stood or sat or leaned, all
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: transfixedly listening like the carved Roman slave, while that wild
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: cry remained within him. Hearing the Christian or civilized part
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: of the crew said it was mermaids and shuddered, but
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: the pagan harpooneers remained unappalled. Yet the gray Manksmen. The
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: oldest mariner of all, declared that the wild thrilling sounds
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: that were heard were the voices of newly drowned men
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: in the sea below. In his hammock. Ahab did not
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: hear of this till gray dawn, when he came to
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: the deck. It was then recounted to him by flask,
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: not unaccompanied with hinted dark meanings. He hollowly laughed, and
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: thus explained the wonder Those rocky islands the ship had
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: passed were the resort of great numbers of seals, and
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: some young seals that had lost their dams, or some
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: dams that had lost their cubs, must have risen nigh
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: the ship and kept company with her, crying and sobbing
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: with their human sort of wail. But this only the
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: more affected some of them, because most mariners cherish a
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: very superstitious feeling about seals, arising not only from their
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: peculiar tones when in distress, but also from the human
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: look of their round heads and semi intelligent faces seen
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: peeringly uprising from the water alongside in the sea. Under
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: certain circumstances, seals have more than once been mistaken for men.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: But the boatings of the crew were destined to receive
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: their number. That morning, at sunrise, this man went from
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: his hammock to the mast head at the fore. And
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: whether it was that he had not yet half waked
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: from his sleep four sailors sometimes go aloft in a
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: transition state. Whether it was thus with the man, there
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: is now no telling, But be that, as it may,
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: he had not been long at his perch when a
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: cry was heard, a cry, and a rushing, And looking
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: up they saw a falling phantom in the air, and
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: looking down, a little tossed heat heap of white bubbles
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: in the blue of the sea, the life boy. A long,
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: slender cask was dropped from the stern where it always hung,
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: obedient to a cunning spring, but no hand rose to
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: seize it. And the sun having long beat upon this cask,
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: it had shrunken so that it slowly filled, and that
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: parched wood also filled at its every pore, And the studded,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: iron bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: if to yield him his pillow, though in sooth but
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: a hard one. And thus the first man of the
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: peaquad that mounted the mast to look out for the
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: white whale. On the white whale's own peculiar ground, that
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: man was swallowed up in the deep. But few perhaps
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: thought of that at the time. Indeed, in some sort
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: they were not grieved at this event, at least as
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: a portent, for they regarded it not as a foreshadowing
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: of evil in the future, but as the fulfillment of
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: an evil already presaged. They declared that now they knew
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: the reason of those wild shrieks they had heard the
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: night before. But again the old Manksman said nay, the
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: lost life boy was now to be replaced. Starbuck was
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: directed to see to it. But as no cask of
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: sufficient lightness could be found, and as in the feverish
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: eagerness of what seemed the approaching crisis of the voyage,
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: all hands were impatient of any toil, but what was
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: directly connected with its final end, whatever that might prove
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: to be. Therefore, they were going to leave the ship's stern,
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: unprovided with a boy, when by certain strange signs and innuendoes,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: quek Quaig hinted a hint concerning his coffin a life
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: boy of a coffin, cried Starbuck, starting rather queer that
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: I should say, said Stubb. It'll make a good enough one,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: said Flask. The carpenter here can arrange it easily. Bring
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: it up. There's nothing else for it, said Starbuck, after
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: a melancholy pause. Rig It, carpenter, do not look at me,
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: so the coffin, I mean, dost thou hear me? Rig it?
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: And shall I nail down the lid, sir, moving his
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: hand as with a hammer? Aye? And shall I cock
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: the seam, sir, moving his hand as with a calking iron. Aye?
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: And shall I then pay over the same with the pitch, Sir,
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: moving his hand as with a pitch pot? Away? What
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: possesses thee to this? Make a life boy of the coffin?
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: And no more, mister Stubb, mister Flask, come forward with
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: me off He goes in a huff. The whole he
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: can endure at the parts, he balks. Now, I don't
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: like this. I make a leg for Captain Ahab, and
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: he wears it like a gentleman. But I make a
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: b box for Queekwag, and he won't put his head
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: into it. They are all my pains to go for
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: nothing with that coffin, and now I'm ordered to make
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: a life boy of it. It's like turning an old coat,
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: going to bring the flesh on the other side. Now,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: I don't like this cobbling sort of business. I don't
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: like it at all. It's undignified. It's not my place.
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: Let tinker's brats do tinkerings. We are their betters. I
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: like to take in hand none but clean, virgin, fair
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: and square mathematical jobs, something that regularly begins at the
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: beginning and is at the middle, when midway, and comes
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: to an end at the conclusion. Not a cobbler's job
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: that's at an end in the middle and at the
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: beginning at the end. It's the old woman's tricks to
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: be giving cobbling jobs. Lord, what an affection all women
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: have for tinkers. I know an old woman of sixty
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: five who ran away with a bald headed young tinker once. Man,
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: that's the reason I never would work for lonely widow
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: old women ashore when I kept my job shop in
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: the vineyards. They might have taken it into their lonely
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: old heads to run off with me. But high ho
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: there are no caps at sea, but snow caps. Let
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: me see, nail down the lid cock the seams, pay
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: over the same with pitch, batten them down tight, and
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: hang it with the snapspring over the ship's stern wherever
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: such thing's done before with a coffin. Some superstitious old
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: carpenters now would be tied up in the rigging ere.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: They would do the job. But I'm made of naughty
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: aroosta hemlock. I don't budge cruppered with a coffin, sailing
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: about with a graveyard tray. But never mind. Wee workers
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: in woods make bridal bedsteads and cards as well as
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: coffins and hearses. We work by the month, or by
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: the job, or by the prophet. Not for us to
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: ask the why and where for of our work. Unless
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: it be two confounded cobbling, then we stash it if
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: we can en. I'll do the job now tenderly. I'll
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: have me let's see how many in the ship's company
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: all told, but I've forgotten anyway, I'll have me thirty
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: separate turks headed lifelines, each three feet long, hanging all
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: around the coffin. Then if the hull go down, there'll
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: be thirty lively fellows, all fighting for one coffin, a
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: sight not seen very often beneath the sun. Comm hammer, cocking, iron,
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: pitch pot, and marling spike. Let's to it, Chapter one,
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: twenty seven. The deck the coffin laid upon two line
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: tubs between the vice bench and the open hatchway. The
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: carpenter calking. It seems the string of twisted oakum slowly
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: unwinding from a large roll of it placed in the
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: bosom of his frock. Ahab comes slowly from the cabin gangway,
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: and here's Pip following him back. Lad, I will be
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: with you again presently, he goes. Not this hand complies
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: with my humor more genially than that boy middle aisle
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: of a church. What's here? Lifeboy? Sir? Mister Starbucks orders, Oh, look, sir,
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: beware the hatchway, thankye man. Thy coffin lies handy to
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: the vault. Sir, A that hatchway? Oh so it does, sir,
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: So it does, art thou not? The leg maker? Look?
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: Did not this stump come from thy shop? I believe
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: it did, sir? Does the ferrol stand? Sir? Well enough?
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: But art thou not? Also? The undertaker, I sir, I
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: patched up this thing here as a coffin for quekweg.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: But they've set me now to turning it into something else.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: Then tell me, art thou not an errant, all grasping, intermeddling, monopolizing,
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: heathenish old scamp to be one day making legs, and
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: the next day coffins to clap them in, and yet
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: again life boys out of those same coffins. Thou art
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: as unprincipled as the gods, and as much of a
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: jack of all trades. But I do not mean anything, sir,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: I do as I do the gods. Again, hark ye,
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: dost thou not ever sing working about a coffin. The
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: Titans they say hum snatches when chipping out the craters
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: for volcano, and the grave digger in the play sings
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: spade in hand. Dost thou never sing, sir? Do I sing? Oh?
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: I'm indifferent enough sir for that. But the reason why
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: the grave digger made music must have been because there
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: was none in his spade, sir. But the calking mallet
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: is full of it, hark to it, aye, And that's
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: because the lid there's a sounding board, And what in
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: all things makes the sounding board? Is this there's not beneath,
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: and yet a coffin with a body in it rings
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: pretty much the same carpenter hast thou ever helped carry
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: a beer and heard the coffin knock against the churchyard gate,
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: going in faith, sir, I faith? What's that? Why? Faith? Sir?
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: It's only a sort of exclamation like that's all sir,
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: um hmm. Go on. I was about to say, sir,
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: that art thou a silkworm. Dost thou spin thy own
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: shroud out of thyself, look at thy bosom, dispatch and
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: get these traps out of sight. He goes aft. That
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: was sudden now, but squalls come sudden in hot latitudes.
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: I've heard that the isle of Albemarle, one of the Galapagos,
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: is cut by the equator right in the middle. Seems
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: to me some sort of equator cuts yon old man
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: too right in his middle. He's always under the line.
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: Fiery hot, I tell you, he's looking this way. Come oak,
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: hum quick, here we go again. This wooden mallet is
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: the cork, and I'm the professor of musical glasses. Tap
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: tap ahab to himself. There's a sight, there's a sound.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: The gray headed woodpecker tapping the hollow tree, blind and
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: dumb might well be envied. Now see that thing rests
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: on two line tubs full of tow lines, a most
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: malicious wag. That fellow rat tat so Man's second's tick. Oh,
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: how immaterial are all materials? What things real? Are there?
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: But imponderable thoughts? Here? Now's the very dreaded symbol of
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: grim death by a mere hap made the expressive sign
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: of the help and hope of most endangered life, A
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: life boy of a coffin? Does it go further? Can
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: it be that, in some spiritual sense the coffin is,
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: after all but an immortality preserver? I'll think of that.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: But no, so far gone am I in the dark
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: side of Earth that its other side, the theoretic bright
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: one seems but uncertain twilight to me? Will you never
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: have done, Carpenter with that accursed sound? I go below.
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: Let me not see that thing here when I return again. Now, then, Pip,
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: we'll talk this over. I do suck most wondrous philosophies
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: from the some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds must
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: empty into the end of chapters one hundred twenty four
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: to one hundred twenty seven, chapters one hundred twenty eight
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: to one hundred thirty two. Chapter one hundred twenty eight,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: The Peaquad meets the Rachel. Next day, a large ship,
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: the Rachel was described bearing directly down upon the Peaquad,
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: all her spars thickly clustering with men. At the time,
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: the Peaquad was making good speed through the water, but
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: as the broad winged windward Stranger shot nigh to her,
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: the boastful sails all fell together as blank bladders that
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: are burst, and all life fled from the smitten hull.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: Bad news she brings, bad news, muttered the old Manksman.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: But ere her commander, who with trumpet to mouth, stood
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: up in his boat ere he could hopefully hail. Ahab's
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: voice was heard, has seen the white whale? I yesterday?
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: Have you seen a whale boat adrift? Throttling his joy,
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: Ahab negatively answered this unexpected question and would have fain
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: boarded the Stranger when the Stranger captain himself, having stopped
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: his vessel's way, was seen descending her side. A few
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: keen pulls in his boat hook soon clinched the Peaquad's
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: main chains, and he sprang to the deck. Immediately he
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: was recognized by Ahab for a nantucketer he knew, but
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: no formal salutation was exchanged. Where was he not killed?
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: Not killed? Cried Ahab, closely advancing How was it? It
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: seemed that somewhere late in the afternoon of the day previous,
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: while three of the Stranger's boats were engaged with a
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: shoal of whales, which had led them some four or
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: five miles from the ship, and while they were yet
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: of Moby Dick had suddenly loomed up out of the
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: water not very far to leeward, whereupon the fourth rigged boat,
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: a reserved one, had been instantly lowered in chase after
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: a keen sail before the wind. This fourth boat, the
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: swiftest keeled of all, seemed to have succeeded in fastening,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: at least as well as the man in the masthead
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: could tell anything about it. In the distance he saw
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: the diminished dotted boat, and then a swift gleam of
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: bubbling white water, and after that nothing more. Whence it
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: was concluded that the stricken whale must have indefinitely run
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: away with his pursuers. As often happens, there was some apprehension,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: but no positive alarm as yet the recall signals were
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: placed in the riggings. Darkness came on and forced to
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: pick up her three far to windward boats, ere going
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: in quest of the fourth one in the precisely opposite direction.
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: The ship had not only been necessitated to leave that
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: boat to its fate till near midnight, but for the
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: time to increase her distance from it. But the rest
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: of her crew being at last safe aboard, she crowded
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: all sail stunsil on stuncail after the missing boat, kindling
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: a fire in her tripods for a beacon, and every
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: other man aloft on the lookout. But though when she
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: had thus sailed a sufficient distance to gain the presumed
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: place of the absent ones when last seen, though, she
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: then paused to lower her spare boats to pull all
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: around her, and, not finding anything, had again dashed on,
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: again paused and lowered her boats, And though she had
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: thus continued doing till daylight, yet not the least glimpse
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: of the missing keel had been seen, the story told,
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: the stranger captain immediately went on to reveal his object
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: in boarding the Peaquad. He desired that ship to unite
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: with his own in the search by sailing over the
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: sea some four or five miles apart, on parallel lines,
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: and so sweeping a double horizon, as it were. I
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: will wager something, now, whispered Stubb to Flask, that someone
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: in that missing boat wore off that captain's best coat.
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: Mayhap his watch. He's so cursed anxious to get it back.
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: Whoever heard of two pious whale ships cruising after one
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: missing whale boat in the high of the wailing season?
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: See Flask, only see how pale he looks, pale in
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: the very buttons of his eyes. Look, it wasn't the coat.
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: It must have been the My boy, my own boy
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: is among them. For God's sake, I beg I conjure here,
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: exclaimed the stranger captain to Ahab, who thus far had
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: but icily received his petition. For eight and forty hours,
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: let me charter your ship. I will gladly pay for it,
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: and roundly pay for it. If there be no other
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: way for eight and forty hours, only only that you must, Oh,
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: you must, and you shall do this thing. His son
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: cried Stubb. Oh, it's his son. He's lost. I take
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: back the coat in the watch. What says Ahab, We
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: must save that boy. He's drowned with the rest of em.
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: Last night, said the old Manx sailor standing behind them,
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: I heard all of you, heard their spirits now, as
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: it shortly turned out, what made this incident of the
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: Rachels the more melancholy was the circumstance that not only
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: was one of the captain's sons among the number of
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: the missing boat's crew, but among the number of the
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: other boat's crews, and at the same time, but on
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: the other hand, separated from the ship during the dark
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: vicissitudes of the chase, there had been still another son,
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: and that for a time the wretched father was plunged
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: to the bottom of the cruelest perplexity, which was only
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: solved for him by his chief mates, instinctively adopting the
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: ordinary procedure of a whale ship in such emergencies, that is,
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: when placed between jeopardized but divided boats, always to pick
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: up the majority first. But the captain, for some unknown
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: constitutional reason, had refrained from mentioning all this, and not
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: till forced to it by Ahab's iciness. Did he allude
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: to his one yet missing boy, lad but twelve years old,
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: whose father, with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: the destiny of all his race. Nor does it unfrequently
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: occur that nantucket captains will send a son of such
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: tender age away from them for a protracted three or
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: four years voyage in some other ship than their own,
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern. Meantime, now
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: the stranger was still beseeching his poor boon of Ahab,
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: and Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock,
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: but without the least quivering of his own. I will
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: not go, said the stranger, till you say aye to me,
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: do me as you would have me do to you
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: in the like case, For you too have a boy,
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: captain Ahab, though but a child and nestling safely at home.
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: Now a child of your old age too. Yes, yes,
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: you relent, I see it. Run run man now and
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: stand by to square in the yards. A vast cried
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: ahab touch not a rope yarn. Then, in a voice
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: that prolongingly molded every word, Captain Gardner, I will not
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: do it. Even now I lose time. Goodbye, goodbye, God
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: bless you man, and may I forgive myself. But I
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: must go, mister Starbuck. Look at the binnacle, watch and
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: in three minutes from this present instant worn off all strangers.
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: Then brace forward again and let the ships sail as before. Hurriedly,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: turning with averted face, he descended into his cabin, leaving
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: the Strange captain transfixed at this unconditional and utter rejection
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: of his so earnest suit. But starting from his enchantment,
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: Gardiner silently hurried to the side more fell than stepped
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: into his boat, and returned to his ship. Soon the
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: two ships diverged their wakes, and long as the strange
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: vessel was in view, she was seen to yaw hither
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: and thither at every dark spot, however small, on the sea.
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: This way, and that her yards were swung round starboard
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: and larboard. She continued to tack. Now she beat against
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: a head sea, and again it pushed her before it,
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: while all the while her masts and yards were thickly
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: clustered with men as three tall cherry trees when the
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: boys are cherrying among the boughs. But by her, still
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: halting course and winding woeful way, you plainly saw that
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort.
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: She was Rachel, weeping for her children because they were
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: not Chapter one twenty nine. The cabin Ahab moving to
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: go on deck, Pip catches him by the hand to follow, Lad, Lad,
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: I tell THEE thou must not follow Ahab. Now the
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: hour is coming when Ahab would not scare THEE from him,
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: yet would not have THEE by him. There is that
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: in thee, poor Lad, which I feel too curing to
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: my malady, like cures like, and for this hunt, my
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: malady becomes my most desired health. Do thou abide below
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: here where they shall serve thee as if thou wert
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: the captain, Aye, Lad, thou shalt sit here in my
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: own screwed chair, another screw to it. Thou must be no, no, no,
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: ye have not a whole body, sir, do ye, but
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: use poor me for your one lost leg only tread
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: upon me, Sir, I ask no more, so I remain
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: a part of ye all spite of million villains. This
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: makes me a bigot in the fadeless fidelity of man,
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: and a black and crazy. But methinks like cures like
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: applies to him too. He grows so sane again. They
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: tell me, sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip,
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: whose drowned bones now show white for all the blackness
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: of his living skin. But I will never desert ye, sir,
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: as Stubb did him. Sir, I must go with ye.
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: If thou speakest thus to me much more, Ahab's purpose
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: keels up in him. I tell THEE, no, it cannot be,
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: o good master, Master, Master weep so and I will
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: murder THEE have a care for Ahab too, is mad.
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: Listen an thou wilt often hear my ivory foot upon
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: the deck, and still know that I am there, And
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: now I quit thee Thy hand met true art, Thou
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: lad as the circumference to its center. So God for
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: ever bless thee, And if it come to that, God
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: for ever save thee let what will befall ahab goes.
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: Pip steps one step forward. Here he this instant stood.
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: I stand in his air. But I am alone. Now
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: we're even poor Pip here. I could endure it, but
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: he is missing, Pip, Pip ding dong ding. Who's scene? Pip?
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: He must be up here. Let's try the door. What
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: neither lock nor bolt nor bar? And yet there's no
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: opening it? It must be the spell. He told me
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: to stay here, ay, and told me this screwed chair
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: was mine here. Then I'll seat me against the transom
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: in the ship's full middle, all her keel and her
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: three masts before me. Here our old sailors say in
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: their black seventy fours. Great admirals sometimes sit at table
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: and lord it over rows of captains and lieutenants. Huh,
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 1: what's this? Epaulets, epaulets, The epaulets all come crowding, pass
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: round the decanters, glad to see you fill up, monsieurs.
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: What an odd feeling now when a black boy's host
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 1: to white men with gold lace upon their coats. Messieurs,
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: have you seen one pip? A little negro lad five
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: feet high, hang dog, look and cowardly jumped from a
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: whale boat once seen him. No, well, then fill up again, captains,
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: and let's drink. Shame upon all cowards. I name no names.
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: Shame upon them. Put one foot upon the table, Shame
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: upon all cowards. Hist above there I hear ivory, Oh, master, master,
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: I am indeed downhearted when you walk over me. But
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: here I'll stay though this stern strikes rocks, and they
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: bulge through, and oysters come to join me. Chapter one
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: hundred thirty The Hat. And now that, at the proper
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: time and place, after so long and wide a preliminary
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: cruise ahab all other whaling waters swept seemed to have
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: chased his foe into an ocean fold to slay him
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: the more securely. There Now that he found himself hard
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: had been inflicted. Now that a vessel had been spoken, which,
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: on the very day preceding had actually encountered Moby Dick.
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: And now that all his successive meetings with various ships
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which the
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: white whale tore his hunters, whether sinning or sinned against.
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: Now it was that there lurked a something in the
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: old Man's eyes, which it was hardly sufferable for feeble
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: souls to see. As the unsetting polar star, which through
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: the livelong arctic six months night sustains its piercing, steady
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: central gaze. Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: constant midnight of the gloomy crew. It domineered above them,
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: so that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears were fain
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 1: to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: single spear or leaf. In this foreshadowing interval, too, all humor,
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: forced or natural vanished. Stubb no more strove to raise
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: a smile starbuck, no more strove to check one alike.
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: Joy and sorrow, hope and fear seemed ground to finest
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: dust and powdered for the time in the clamped mortar
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: of Ahab's iron soul like machines. They dumbly moved about
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: the deck, ever conscious that the old man's despot eye
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: was on them. But did you deeply scan him in
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: his more secret, confidential hours, when he thought no glance
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: but one was on him, then you would seen that
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: even as Ahab's eyes so awed the cruise, the inscrutable
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: Parsi's glance awed his, or somehow at least in some
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: wild way, at times affected it. Such an added gliding
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: strangeness began to invest the thin Fidalla. Now such ceaseless
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: shuddering shook him, that the men looked dubious at him,
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: half uncertain, as it seemed whether indeed he were a
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: mortal substance or else a tremulous shadow cast upon the
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: deck by some unseen being's body. And that shadow was
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: always hovering there. For not by night, even had Fidala
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: ever certainly been known to slumber or go below, he
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: would stand still for hours, but never sat or leaned
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: his wan. But wondrous eyes did plainly say we two
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 1: watchmen never rest, Nor at any time, by night or day,
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: could the mariners now step upon them, unless Ahab was
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: before them, either standing in his pivot hole or exactly
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 1: pacing the planks between two undeviating limits, the main mast
• 2:31:10
  Speaker 1: and the mizzen, or else they saw him standing in
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: the cabin scuttle. His living foot advanced upon the deck
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: as if to step, his hat slouched heavily over his eyes,
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: so that, however motionless he stood. However, the days and
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: nights were added on that he had not swung in
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: his hammock, yet hidden beneath that slouching hat. They could
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: never tell unerringly whether for all this his eyes were
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: really closed at times, or whether he was still intently
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: scanning them, No matter, though he stood so in the
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: scuttle for a whole hour on the stretch, and the
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: unheeded night damp gathered in beads of dew upon that
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: stone carved coat and hat, the clothes that night had wet,
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: the next day's sunshine dried upon him. And so day
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: after day and night after night he they went no
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: more beneath the planks. Whatever he wanted from the cabin,
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 1: that thing he sent for, he ate in the same
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: open air. That is his two only meals, breakfast and
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: dinner supper. He never touched nor reaped his beard, which
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: darkly grew all gnarled as unearthed roots of trees blown over,
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: which still grow idly on at naked base, though perished
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: in the upper verdure. But though his whole life was
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: now become one watch on deck, and though the Parsi's
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: mystic watch was without intermission as his own. Yet these
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: two never seemed to speak, one man to the other,
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: unless at long intervals some passing, unmomentous matter made it necessary,
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 1: though such a potent spell seemed secretly to join the
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: twain openly, and to the awe struck crew, they seemed
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: pole like, asunder if by day they chanced to speak
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: one word by night dumb men were both so far
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: as concerned the slightest verbal interchange. At times, for longest hours,
• 2:33:07
  Speaker 1: without a single hail, they stood far parted in the starlight,
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 1: Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsi by the mainmast, but
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: still fixedly gazing upon each other, as if in the
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 1: Parsi Ahab saw his fourthrone, shadow in Ahab the Parsi,
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: his abandoned substance. And yet somehow did Ahab in his
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: own proper self, as daily, hourly, in every instant, commandingly
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: revealed to his subordinates. Ahab seemed an independent lord the Parsi,
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 1: but his slave. Still again, both seemed yoked together, and
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: an unseen tyrant driving them the lean shade, sighting the
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: solid rib, for be this Parsi what he may all
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: rib and keel was solid Ahab. At the first faintest
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: glimmering of the dawn, his iron voice was heard, heard
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: from aft man the mast heads, and all through the
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: day till after sunset and after twilight, the same voice
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: every hour at the striking of the helmsman's bell was heard,
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: what do you see, sharp? Sharp? But when three or
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: four days had slided by after meeting the children seeking Rachel,
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 1: and no spout had yet been seen, the monomaniac old
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 1: Man seemed distrustful of his crew's fidelity, at least of
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: nearly all except the pagan harpooneers. He seemed to doubt
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: even whether Stub and Flask might not willingly overlook the
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: sight he sought. But if these suspicions were really his,
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: he sagaciously refrained from verbally expressing them, however his actions
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: might seem to hint them. I will have first sight
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: of the whail myself, he said. Ay Ahab must have
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: the dobloon, And with his own hands he rigged a
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: net ust of basketed bolons, and, sending a hand aloft
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: with a single sheaved block to secure to the main masthead,
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: he received the two ends of the downward reaved rope,
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 1: and attaching one to his basket, prepared a pin for
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 1: the other end in order to fasten it at the rail.
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: This done, with that end yet in his hand, and
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: standing beside the pin, he looked round upon his crew
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: sweeping from one to the other, pausing his glance long
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: upon Dagou Quek Quake Tashtego, but shunning Fidala, and then
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: settling his firm relying eye upon the chief mate, said
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: take the rope, sir, I give it into thy hands. Starbuck. Then,
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 1: arranging his person in the basket, he gave the word
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: for them to hoist him to his perch, Starbuck being
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: the one who secured the rope at last, and afterwards
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: stood near it, and thus with one hand clinging round
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: the royal mast, Ahab gazed abroad upon the sea from
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: miles and miles ahead astern this side, and that within
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: the wide expanded circle commanded at so great a height.
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: When in working with his hands at some lofty, almost
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: isolated place in the rigging, which chances to afford no foothold,
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: the sailor at sea is hoisted up to that spot
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: and sustained there by the rope. Under these circumstances, its
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: fastened end on deck is always given in strict charge
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: to some one man who has the special watch of it,
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: because in such a wilderness of running rigging whose various
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: different relations, aloft cannot always be infallibly discerned by what
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: is seen of them at the deck. And when the
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: deck ends of these ropes are being every few minutes
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: cast down from the fastenings, it would be but a
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: natural fatality if, unprovided with a constant watchman, the hoisted
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: sailor should, by some carelessness of the crew be cast
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: to drift and fall all swooping to the sea. So
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: Ahab's proceedings in this matter were not unusual. The only
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: strange thing about them seemed to be that Starbuck, almost
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: the one only man who had ever ventured to oppose
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: him with anything in the slightest degree approaching to decision,
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 1: one of those too, whose faithfulness on the lookout he
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: had seemed to doubt somewhat, it was strange that this
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: was the very man he should select for his watchman,
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: freely giving his whole life into such an otherwise distrusted
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: person's hands. Now, the first time Ahab was perched aloft
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: ere he had been there ten minutes, one of those
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: red billed savage seahawks which so often fly incommodiously close
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: round the manned mastheads of whalemen in these latitudes. One
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: of those birds came wheeling and screaming round his head
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: in a maze of untrackably swift circlings. Then it darted
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: a thousand feet straight up into the air, then spiralized downwards,
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: and when eddying again round his head. But with his
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: gaze fixed upon the dim and distant horizon, Ahab seemed
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 1: not to mark this wild bird, nor indeed would anyone
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: else have marked it much, it being no uncommon circumstance.
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: Only now almost the least heedful eye seemed to see
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: some sort of cunning meaning in almost every sight. Your hat,
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: Your hat, sir, suddenly cried the Sicilian seaman, who, being
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: posted at the mizzen mast head, stood directly behind Ahab,
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: though somewhat lower than his level, and with a deep
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: gulf of air dividing them. But already the sable wing
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: was before the old man's eyes, the long hooked bill
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: at his head. With a scream, the black hawk darted
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: away with his prize. An eagle flew thrice round Tarquin's head,
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: removing his cap to replace it, and thereupon Tanaquil, his wife,
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: declared that Tarquin would be King of Rome. But only
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: by the replacing of the cap was that omen accounted good.
• 2:39:11
  Speaker 1: Ahab's hat was never restored. The wild hawk flew on
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: and on with it, far in advance of the prow,
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: and at last disappeared, while from the point of that disappearance,
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: a minute black spot was dimly discerned, falling from that
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: vast height into the sea. Chapter one thirty one. The
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: Peaquad meets the Delight. The intense Peaquad sailed on the
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 1: rolling waves, and days went by the lifeboy coffin still
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: lightly swung, and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight,
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: was descried. As she drew nigh. All eyes were fixed
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 1: upon her broad beams called shears, which some whaling ships
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: crossed the quarter deck at the height of eight or
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: nine feet, serving to carry the spare unrigged or disabled boats.
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 1: Upon the Stranger's shears were beheld the shattered white ribs
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: and some few splintered planks of what had once been
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: a whale boat. But you now saw through this wreck
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: as plainly as you see through the peeled, half unhinged
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: and bleaching skeleton of a horse. Hast seen the white whale, look,
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 1: replied the hollow cheeked captain from his taffrail, and with
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 1: his trumpet, he pointed to the wreck hast killed him.
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: The harpoon is not yet forged. That will ever do, that,
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: answered the other sadly, glancing upon a rounded hammock on
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 1: the deck, whose gathered sides some noiseless sailors were busy
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: in sewing together not forged, and snatching Perth's leveled iron
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 1: from the crotch. Ahab held it out, exclaiming, look, ye
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: in Antucketer, here in this hand I hold his death,
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: tempered in blood and tempered by lightning. Are these barbs,
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: and I swear to temper them triply in that hot
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: place behind the fin where the white whale most feels
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 1: as a cursed life. Then God keep thee old man,
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 1: seest thou that, pointing to the hammock, I bury but
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: one of five stout men who were alive only yesterday,
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: but were dead ere night. Only that one I bury.
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: The rest were buried before they died. You sail upon
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: their tomb, Then turning to his crew. Are you ready there?
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: Place the plank then on the rail, and lift the body.
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 1: So then, oh God, advancing toward the hammock with uplifted hands,
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: may the resurrection and the life brace forward. Uphelm cried
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: Ahab like lightning to his men. But the suddenly started
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: Peaquad was not quick enough to escape the sound of
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: the sea. Not so quick indeed, but that some of
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 1: the flying bubbles might have sprinkled her hull with their
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: ghostly baptism. As Ahab now glided from the dejected delight,
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: the strange life boy hanging at the Peaquad stern came
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: into conspicuous relief. Ha yonder look, yonder men, cried a
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: foreboding voice in her wake in vain, Oh ye strangers,
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 1: you fly our sad burial. You but turn us your
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 1: taffrail to show us your Coffin chapter one hundred thirty
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: two The Symphony, it was a clear, steel, blue day.
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: The firmaments of air and sea were hardly so, in
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: that all pervading azure. Only the pensive air was transparently
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: and man liked sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: as Samson's chest in his sleep. Hither and thither on
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 1: high glided the snow white wings of small, unspeckled birds.
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: These were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air. But
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: to and fro in the deeps, far down, in the
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, swordfish and sharks. And these
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 1: But though thus contrasting within, the contrast was only in
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 1: shades and shadows. Without those two seemed one. It was
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: only the sex, as it were, that distinguished them. Aloft
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: like a royal tzar and king, the sun seemed giving
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: the gentle air to this bold and rolling sea, even
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: as bride to groom, and at the girdling line of
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 1: the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion most seen here
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 1: at the equator, denoted the fond, throbbing trust, the loving
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 1: alarms with which the poor bride gave her bosom away
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: tied up and twisted, gnarled and knotted with wrinkles, haggardly,
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 1: firm and unyielding, his eyes glowing like coals, that still
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: glow in the ashes of ruin untottering, Ahab stood forth
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: in the clearness of the morn, lifting his splintered helmet
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven, Oh,
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: immortal infancy and innocency of the azure invisible winged creatures
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: that frolic all round us, sweet childhood of air and sky.
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: How oblivious were ye of old Ahab's close coiled wlod.
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 1: But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire, sporting with
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 1: of that burnt out crater of his brain. Slowly Crossing
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: the deck from the scuttle, Ahab leaned over the side
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: and watched how his shadow in the water sank and
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: sank to his gaze. The more and the more that
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 1: he strove to pierce the profundity. But the lovely aromas
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel
• 2:45:34
  Speaker 1: for a moment the cankerous thing in his soul. That glad,
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: happy air, that winsome sky did at last stroke and
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: caress him the stepmother world so long cruel forbidding, now
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 1: threw affectionate arms round his stubborn neck, and did seem
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: to joyously sob over him, as if over one that
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 1: however wilful and erring, she could yet find it in
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: her heart to save and to bless. From beneath his
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: slouched hat, Ahab dropped a tear into the sea. Nor
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 1: did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 1: we drop. Starbuck saw the old man saw him, how
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 1: he heavily leaned over the side, and he seemed to
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: hear in his own true heart the measureless sobbing that
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: stole out of the center of the serenity around. Careful
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: not to touch him or be noticed by him, he
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 1: yet drew near to him, and stood there. Ahab turned Starbuck, Sir, oh, Starbuck,
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 1: it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: sky on such a day, very much such a sweetness
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: as this, I struck my first wail A boy harpooneer
• 2:46:54
  Speaker 1: of eighteen forty, forty forty years ago ago, forty years
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: of continual wailing, forty years of privation and peril and
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 1: storm time, forty years on the pitiless sea, for forty
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land for forty years
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 1: to make war on the horrors of the deep Aye,
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: and yes, Starbuck. Out of those forty years, I have
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 1: not spent three ashore. When I think of this life,
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: I have led the desolation of solitude. It has been
• 2:47:35
  Speaker 1: the masoned, walled town of a captain's exclusiveness, which admits
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: without oh weariness, heaviness, Guinea coast, slavery of solitary command.
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 1: When I think of all this, only half suspected, not
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: so keenly known to me before. And how for forty
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: years I have fed upon dry salted fair fit emblem
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: of the dry nourishment of my soul, when the poorest
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: landsman has had fresh fruit to his daily hand, and
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: broken the world's fresh bread to my moldy crusts away
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: whole oceans away from that young girl wife, I wedded
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 1: past fifty and sailed for Cape Horn the next day,
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: leaving but one dent in my marriage pillow wife wife,
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: rather a widow with her husband alive. I I widowed
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck, and then
• 2:48:41
  Speaker 1: the madness the frenzy, the boiling blood, and the smoking
• 2:48:46
  Speaker 1: brow with which, for a thousand lowerings, old Ahab has furiously,
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 1: foamingly chased his prey, more a demon than a man.
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  Speaker 1: Ay Ay, what a forty years fool, fool, old fool
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  Speaker 1: as old Ahab been? Why this strife of the chase,
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  Speaker 1: Why weary and palsy, the arm at the oar, and
• 2:49:12
  Speaker 1: the iron and the lance? How the richer or better
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 1: is Ahab? Now? Behold, oh Starbuck, is it not hard
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  Speaker 1: that with this weary load I bear, one poor leg
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  Speaker 1: should have been snatched from under me? Here? Brush this
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  Speaker 1: old hair aside? It blinds me that I seemed to
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  Speaker 1: weep locks so gray did never grow but from out
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  Speaker 1: some ashes? But do I look very old? So very old? Starbuck?
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  Speaker 1: I feel deadly, faint, bowed and humped, as though I
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  Speaker 1: were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise, God, God, God,
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  Speaker 1: crack my heart, still my brain? Mockery, mockery, bitter, biting,
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  Speaker 1: mockery of gray hairs? Have I lived enough joy to
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: wear ye and seem and feel thus intolerably old? Close?
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  Speaker 1: Stand close to me, Starbuck, Let me look into a
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  Speaker 1: human eye It is better than to gaze into sea
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  Speaker 1: or sky, better than to gaze upon God, by the
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  Speaker 1: green land, by the bright hearthstone. This is the magic glass. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: stay on board, on board lower. Not when I do.
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  Speaker 1: When branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick, that hazard
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  Speaker 1: shall not be thine. No, no, not with the far
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  Speaker 1: away home I see in that eye, Oh, my captain,
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  Speaker 1: my captain, noble soul, grand old heart. After all, why
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  Speaker 1: should any one give chase to that hated fish? Away
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  Speaker 1: with me? Let us fly these deadly waters. Let us home.
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  Speaker 1: Wife and child too are starbucks, wife and child of
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: his brotherly sisterly playfellow youth, even as thine, sir, are
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  Speaker 1: the wife and child of thy loving, longing paternal old age. Away,
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  Speaker 1: Let us away this instant. Let me alter the course.
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: How cheerily, how hilariously, O, my captain, would we bowl
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: our way to see old Nantucket again? I think, sir,
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  Speaker 1: they have some such mild blue days, even as this
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  Speaker 1: in Nantucket they have, They have. I have seen them
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  Speaker 1: some summer days in the morning about this time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is his noon nap. Now the boy vivaciously wakes
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  Speaker 1: sits up in bed, and his mother tells him of me,
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  Speaker 1: of Cannibal, old me, how I am abroad upon the deep,
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  Speaker 1: But will yet come back to dance him again? Tis
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  Speaker 1: my Mary, My Mary herself. She promised that my boy
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 1: every morning should be carried to the hill to catch
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  Speaker 1: the first glimpse of his father's sail. Yes, yes, no
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  Speaker 1: more it is done. We had for Nantucket. Come, my captain,
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  Speaker 1: study out the course, and let us away. See see
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  Speaker 1: the boy's face from the window, the boy's hand on
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  Speaker 1: the hill. But Ahab's glance was averted like a blighted
• 2:52:44
  Speaker 1: fruit tree. He shook and cast his last cindered apple
• 2:52:48
  Speaker 1: to the soil. What is it? What nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing?
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: Is it? What cousining, hidden, lord and master and cruel,
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: remorseless emperor commands me that against all natural lovings and longings,
• 2:53:08
  Speaker 1: I so keep pushing and crowding and jamming myself on
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  Speaker 1: all the time, recklessly making me ready to do what
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  Speaker 1: in my own proper natural heart I durst not so
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  Speaker 1: much as dare is Ahab? Is it I God or
• 2:53:27
  Speaker 1: who that lifts this arm? But if the great sun
• 2:53:31
  Speaker 1: move not of himself, but is as an errand boy
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 1: in the heaven. Nor one single star can revolve but
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 1: by some invisible power. Then how can this one's small
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 1: heart beat, this one small brain think thoughts? Unless God
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  Speaker 1: does that beating? Does that thinking? Does that living? And
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 1: not I by heaven? Man? We are turned round and
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  Speaker 1: round in this world like yonder wind and fate is
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: the handspike, and all the time low that smiling sky
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  Speaker 1: in this unsounded sea. Look see yon albacore, who put
• 2:54:13
  Speaker 1: it into him to chase and fang that flying fish?
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 1: Where do murderers go? Man? Who's to doom? When the
• 2:54:21
  Speaker 1: judge himself is dragged to the bar. But it is
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: a mild, mild wind and a mild looking sky, and
• 2:54:29
  Speaker 1: the air smells now as if it blew from a
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  Speaker 1: far away meadow. They have been making hay somewhere under
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  Speaker 1: the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are
• 2:54:38
  Speaker 1: sleeping among the new mown hay, sleeping hi toil we
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: how we may we all sleep at last on the
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  Speaker 1: field sleep aye and rust amid greenness, as last year's
• 2:54:52
  Speaker 1: scythes flung down and left in the half cut swaths. Starbuck,
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 1: But branched to a corpse's hue. With despair the mate
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 1: had stolen away. Ahab crossed the deck to gaze over
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, but started at two reflected fixed
• 2:55:13
  Speaker 1: eyes in the water. There Fidala was motionlessly leaning over
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  Speaker 1: the same rail. End of chapters one hundred twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred thirty two. Moby Dick, Chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thirty three. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Chapter one hundred thirty three.
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: The chase first day that night in the midwatch, when
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: the old man, as his wont at intervals, stepped forth
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  Speaker 1: from the scuttle in which he leaned and went to
• 2:56:04
  Speaker 1: his pivot hole. He suddenly thrust his face out, fiercely,
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 1: snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious ship's dog will.
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  Speaker 1: In drawing nigh to some barbarous isle. He declared that
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: a whale must be near soon. That peculiar odor, sometimes
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: to a great distance given forth by the living sperm
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: whale was palpable to all the watch, nor was any
• 2:56:28
  Speaker 1: mariner surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the
• 2:56:32
  Speaker 1: dog vein, and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: odour as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship's
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 1: course to be slightly altered and the sail to be shortened.
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: daybreak by the sight of a long sleek on the
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 1: sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling
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  Speaker 1: in the pleated watery ring gulls bordering it the polished,
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  Speaker 1: metallic like marks of some swift tide rip at the
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: mouth of a deep rapid stream. Man the mastheads call
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  Speaker 1: all hands, thundering with the butts of three clubbed handspikes
• 2:57:15
  Speaker 1: on the forecastle deck, Dagoo roused the sleepers with such
• 2:57:19
  Speaker 1: judgment claps that they seemed to exhale from the scuttle,
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  Speaker 1: so instantaneously did they appear with their clothes in their hands.
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  Speaker 1: What do' you see, cried Ahab, flattening his face to
• 2:57:31
  Speaker 1: the sky. Nothing, nothing, sir, was the sound hailing down
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  Speaker 1: in reply to gallant sails stuncils a low and aloft
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 1: and on both sides, all sail being set. He now
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: cast loose the lifeline reserved for swaying him to the
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 1: main royal masthead, and in a few moments they were
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 1: hoisting him thither, when, while but two thirds of the
• 2:57:56
  Speaker 1: way aloft, and while peering ahead through the horizon vacancy
• 2:58:01
  Speaker 1: between the main topsail and the Tagallant sail, he raised
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: a gull like cry in the air. There she blows,
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 1: there she blows, a hump like a snow hill. It
• 2:58:13
  Speaker 1: is Moby Dick. Fired by the cry, which seemed simultaneously
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: taken up by the three lookouts, the men on deck
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  Speaker 1: rushed to the rigging to behold the famous whale they
• 2:58:24
  Speaker 1: had so long been pursuing. Ahab had now gained his
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 1: final perch, some feet above the other lookouts, Tashtego standing
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 1: just beneath him on the cap of the Tagallant mast,
• 2:58:36
  Speaker 1: so that the Indian's head was almost on a level
• 2:58:38
  Speaker 1: with Ahab's heel. From this height, the whale was now
• 2:58:42
  Speaker 1: seen some mile or so ahead at every roll of
• 2:58:45
  Speaker 1: the sea, revealing his high, sparkling hump and regularly jetting
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 1: his silent spout into the air. To the credulous mariners,
• 2:58:53
  Speaker 1: it seemed the same silent spout they had so long
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 1: ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian oceans. And
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: did none of ye see it before? Cried Ahab, hailing
• 2:59:04
  Speaker 1: the perched men all around him. I saw him almost
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  Speaker 1: that same instant, Sir, that Captain Ahab did, And I
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  Speaker 1: cried out, said, tashtago, Not the same instant, not the same, No,
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  Speaker 1: the doubloon is mine. Fate reserved the dobloon for me.
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  Speaker 1: I only none of you could have raised the white
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  Speaker 1: whale first. There she blows, there she blows, There she
• 2:59:31
  Speaker 1: blows there again, there again, he cried out, in long drawn,
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  Speaker 1: lingering methodic tones, attuned to the gradual prolongings of the
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 1: whale's visible jets. He's going to sound in stuncils down
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  Speaker 1: to gallant sails. Stand by three boats, mister Starbuck remembers,
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  Speaker 1: stay on board and keep the ship helm there, luff
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  Speaker 1: luff a point, so steady man, steady, there go flukes. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: only black water already the boat's there. Stand by. Stand
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  Speaker 1: by lower me, mister Starbuck, lower, lower, quick, quicker, And
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 1: he slid through the air to the deck. He's heading
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  Speaker 1: straight to loward, Sir, cried Stubb, right away from us.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot have seen the ship yet, be dumb man. Stand
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  Speaker 1: by the braces, hard down the helm brace up. Shiver her,
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  Speaker 1: shiver her so well that boats boats. Soon, all the
• 3:00:36
  Speaker 1: boats but starbucks were dropped, all the boats, sails set,
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  Speaker 1: all the paddles plying with rippling swiftness, shooting to leeward
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  Speaker 1: and ahab heading the onset. A pale death glimmer lit
• 3:00:49
  Speaker 1: up Fidala's sunken eyes. A hideous motion gnawed his mouth,
• 3:00:54
  Speaker 1: like noiseless nautilus shells. Their light prows sped through the sea,
• 3:00:59
  Speaker 1: but only slowly. They neared the foe. As they neared him,
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: the ocean grew still more smooth, seemed drawing a carpet
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: over its waves, seemed a noon meadow, so serenely it
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: spread at length. The breathless hunter came so nigh his
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 1: seemingly unsuspecting prey that his entire dazzling hump was distinctly visible,
• 3:01:21
  Speaker 1: sliding along the sea as if an isolated thing, and
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 1: continually set in a revolving ring of finest fleecy greenish foam.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the vast involved wrinkles of the slightly projecting
• 3:01:33
  Speaker 1: head beyond before it far out on the soft, turkish,
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 1: rugged waters went the glistening white shadow from his broad,
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  Speaker 1: milky forehead, a musical rippling playfully accompanying the shade, and
• 3:01:46
  Speaker 1: behind the blue waters interchangeably flowed over into the moving
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: valley of his steady wake, and on either hand, bright
• 3:01:54
  Speaker 1: bubbles arose and danced by his side. But these were
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: broken again by the light of hundreds of gay fowl,
• 3:02:02
  Speaker 1: softly feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight, and
• 3:02:07
  Speaker 1: like to some flagstaff rising from the painted hull of
• 3:02:10
  Speaker 1: an argacy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: lance projected from the white whale's back, and at intervals
• 3:02:18
  Speaker 1: one of the cloud of soft toed fowls, hovering and
• 3:02:21
  Speaker 1: to and fro, skimming like a canopy over the fish
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 1: silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail
• 3:02:28
  Speaker 1: feathers streaming like pennons. A gentle joyousness, a mighty mildness
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: of repose in swiftness invested the gliding whale, not the
• 3:02:39
  Speaker 1: white bull jupiters swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: his graceful horns, his lovely leering eyes sideways, intent upon
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 1: the maid, with smooth, bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the
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  Speaker 1: nuptial bower and crete. Not Jove, not that great Majesty
• 3:02:58
  Speaker 1: Supreme did surpass the glorified whale, as he so divinely
• 3:03:03
  Speaker 1: swam on each soft side, coincident with the parted swell, that,
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away on
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  Speaker 1: each bright side, the whale shed off enticings. No wonder,
• 3:03:17
  Speaker 1: there had been some among the hunters, who, namelessly transported
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 1: and allured by all this serenity, had ventured to assail it,
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  Speaker 1: but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes.
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  Speaker 1: Yet calm, enticing, calm, o whale, thou glidest on to
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: all who for the first time eye thee, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how many in that same way thou mayest have be
• 3:03:40
  Speaker 1: juggled and destroyed before. And thus, through the serene tranquilities
• 3:03:45
  Speaker 1: of the tropical sea, among waves whose hand clappings were
• 3:03:49
  Speaker 1: suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby Dick moved on still, withholding
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  Speaker 1: from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely
• 3:03:59
  Speaker 1: hiding them wrenched hideousness of his jaw, but soon the
• 3:04:03
  Speaker 1: fore part of him slowly rose from the water. For
• 3:04:07
  Speaker 1: an instant, his whole marbleized body formed a high arch
• 3:04:11
  Speaker 1: like Virginia's natural bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes
• 3:04:16
  Speaker 1: in the air, the Grand God revealed himself sounded, and
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 1: went out of sight, hoveringly halting and dipping on the wing.
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  Speaker 1: The white sea fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: that he left, with oars a peek and paddles down
• 3:04:32
  Speaker 1: the sheets of their sails adrift. The three boats now
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 1: stillly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance. An hour, said Ahab,
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  Speaker 1: standing rooted in his boat's stern, and he gazed beyond
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 1: the whale's place towards the dim blue spaces and wide
• 3:04:49
  Speaker 1: wooing vacancies to leeward. It was only an instant, for
• 3:04:53
  Speaker 1: again his eyes seemed whirling round in his head as
• 3:04:56
  Speaker 1: he swept the watery circle. The breeze now freshed, the
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 1: sea began to swell the birds. The birds cried tashtego
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  Speaker 1: in long Indian file, as when herons take wing. The
• 3:05:11
  Speaker 1: white birds were now all flying towards Ahab's boat, and
• 3:05:15
  Speaker 1: when within a few yards began fluttering over the water, there,
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 1: wheeling round and round with joyous expectant cries. Their vision
• 3:05:24
  Speaker 1: was keener than man's. Ahab could discover no sign in
• 3:05:28
  Speaker 1: the sea, But suddenly, as he peered down and down
• 3:05:31
  Speaker 1: into its depths, he profoundly saw a white living spot,
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: no bigger than a white weasel, with wonderful celerity, uprising
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: and magnifying as it rose till it turned, and then
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: there were plainly revealed two long, crooked rows of white,
• 3:05:47
  Speaker 1: glistening teeth floating up from the undiscoverable bottom. It was
• 3:05:52
  Speaker 1: Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled jaw, his vast shadowed bulk,
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: still half blending with the blue of the sea. The
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 1: glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open doored
• 3:06:03
  Speaker 1: marble tomb, and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering oar,
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: Ahab whirled the craft aside from this tremendous apparition, then,
• 3:06:13
  Speaker 1: calling upon Fidala to change places with him, went forward
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  Speaker 1: to the bows, and, seizing Perth's harpoon, commanded his crew
• 3:06:21
  Speaker 1: to grasp their oars and stand by to stern. Now
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 1: by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon
• 3:06:28
  Speaker 1: its axis, its bow by anticipation, was made to face
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: the whale's head while yet under water. But as if
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: perceiving this stratagem, moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: to him, sidlingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant,
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  Speaker 1: shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat, through and
• 3:06:50
  Speaker 1: through through every plank, in each rib. It thrilled for
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 1: an instant. The whale, obliquely lying on his back in
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking
• 3:07:02
  Speaker 1: its boughs full within his mouth, so that the long, narrow,
• 3:07:06
  Speaker 1: scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air,
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: and one of the teeth caught in a row lock.
• 3:07:13
  Speaker 1: The bluish pearl white of the inside of the jaw
• 3:07:16
  Speaker 1: was within six inches of Ahab's head and reached higher
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: than that. In this attitude, the white whale now shook
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse
• 3:07:27
  Speaker 1: with unastonished eyes. Fadala gazed and crossed his arms, but
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 1: the tiger yellow crew were tumbling over each other's heads
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 1: to gain the uttermost stern, and now while both elastic
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: gunnales were springing in and out, while the whale dallied
• 3:07:43
  Speaker 1: with the doomed craft in this devilish way, and from
• 3:07:47
  Speaker 1: his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 1: be darted at from the bows, for the bows were
• 3:07:52
  Speaker 1: almost inside of him, as it were. And while the
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 1: other boats involuntarily paused as before a quick crisis in
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: pots pussible to withstand. Then it was that monomaniac Ahab,
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 1: Furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed
• 3:08:08
  Speaker 1: him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated.
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 1: Frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with
• 3:08:16
  Speaker 1: his naked hands and wildly strove to wrench it from
• 3:08:19
  Speaker 1: its grip. As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: slipped from him. The frail gunnales bent in, collapsed and
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 1: snapped as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft,
• 3:08:32
  Speaker 1: bit the craft completely in twain and locked themselves fast
• 3:08:36
  Speaker 1: again in the sea midway between the two floating wrecks.
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: These floated aside the broken ends, drooping the crew at
• 3:08:44
  Speaker 1: the stern wreck, clinging to the gunwales and striving to
• 3:08:48
  Speaker 1: hold fast to the oars to lash them across. At
• 3:08:52
  Speaker 1: that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped. Ahab,
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 1: the first to perceive the whale's intent by the crafty,
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: uprang of his head, a movement that loosed his hold
• 3:09:03
  Speaker 1: for the time. At that moment, his hand made one
• 3:09:06
  Speaker 1: final effort to push the boat out of the bite,
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 1: but only slipping further into the whale's mouth and tilting
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: over sideways. As it slipped. The boat had shaken off
• 3:09:16
  Speaker 1: his hold on the jaw, spilled him out of it
• 3:09:18
  Speaker 1: as he leaned to the push, and so he fell
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: flat faced upon the sea, ripplingly withdrawing from his prey.
• 3:09:27
  Speaker 1: Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting
• 3:09:30
  Speaker 1: his oblong white head up and down in the billows,
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body,
• 3:09:38
  Speaker 1: so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose some twenty
• 3:09:42
  Speaker 1: or more feet out of the water, the now rising swells,
• 3:09:46
  Speaker 1: with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it, vindictively,
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 1: tossing their shivered spray still higher in the air. So
• 3:09:55
  Speaker 1: in a gale, the but half baffled channel billows only
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 1: recoil from the base of the eddystone triumphantly to overleap
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 1: its summit with their scud. Footnote. This motion is peculiar
• 3:10:08
  Speaker 1: to the sperm whale. It receives its designation pitchpoling from
• 3:10:12
  Speaker 1: its being likened to that preliminary up and down poise
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 1: of the whale lance. In the exercise called pitchpoling previously
• 3:10:20
  Speaker 1: described by this motion, the whale must best and most
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: comprehensively view whatever objects may be encircling him. End of footnote.
• 3:10:30
  Speaker 1: But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly
• 3:10:35
  Speaker 1: round and round the wrecked crew sideways, churning the water
• 3:10:39
  Speaker 1: in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: still another and more deadly assault. The sight of the
• 3:10:45
  Speaker 1: splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of
• 3:10:49
  Speaker 1: grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the Book
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 1: of Maccabee's. Meanwhile, Ahab half smothered in the foam of
• 3:10:58
  Speaker 1: the whale's insolent tail, and too much of a cripple
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 1: to swim, though he could still keep afloat, even in
• 3:11:04
  Speaker 1: the heart of such a whirlpool, as that helpless Ahab's
• 3:11:08
  Speaker 1: head was seen like a tossed bubble, which the least
• 3:11:11
  Speaker 1: chance shock might burst from the boat's fragmentary stern Fidala
• 3:11:16
  Speaker 1: incuriously and mildly eyed him. The clinging crew at the
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 1: other drifting end could not succor him. More than enough
• 3:11:24
  Speaker 1: was it for them to look to themselves, For so
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 1: revolvingly appalling was the white whale's aspect, and so planetarily
• 3:11:32
  Speaker 1: swift the ever contracting circles he made, that he seemed
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 1: horizontally swooping upon them. And though the other boats, unharmed,
• 3:11:40
  Speaker 1: still hovered hard by, still they dared not pull into
• 3:11:44
  Speaker 1: the eddy to strike, lest that should be the signal
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 1: for the instant destruction of the jeopardized castaways, Ahab and all.
• 3:11:51
  Speaker 1: Nor in that case could they themselves hope to escape.
• 3:11:55
  Speaker 1: With straining eyes, then they remained on the outer edge
• 3:11:58
  Speaker 1: of the direful zone, whose center had now become the
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 1: old Man's head. Meantime, from the beginning, all this had
• 3:12:06
  Speaker 1: been descried from the ship's mastheads, and squaring her yards,
• 3:12:10
  Speaker 1: she had borne down upon the scene and was now
• 3:12:14
  Speaker 1: so nigh that Ahab in the water hailed her sail
• 3:12:18
  Speaker 1: on the But that moment a breaking sea dashed on
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 1: him from moby dick and whelmed him for the time.
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: But struggling out of it again, and chancing to rise
• 3:12:28
  Speaker 1: on the towering crest, he shouted, sail on the whale,
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: drive him off. The Piquad's prows were pointed, and breaking
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 1: up the charmed circle, she effectually parted the white whale
• 3:12:40
  Speaker 1: from his victim, as he sullenly swam off the boats
• 3:12:44
  Speaker 1: flew to the rescue. Dragged into Stubb's boat with bloodshot,
• 3:12:48
  Speaker 1: blinded eyes, the white brine caking in his wrinkles, the
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: long tension of Ahab's bodily strength did crack, and helplessly
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 1: he yielded to his body's doom for a time, lying
• 3:13:00
  Speaker 1: all crushed in the bottom of Stubb's boat, like one
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 1: trodden under foot of herds of elephants far inland. Nameless
• 3:13:09
  Speaker 1: wails came from him, as desolate sounds from out ravines.
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 1: But this intensity of his physical prostration did but so
• 3:13:18
  Speaker 1: much the more abbreviate it. In an instant's compass. Great
• 3:13:22
  Speaker 1: hearts sometimes condensed to one deep pang. The sum total
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives,
• 3:13:31
  Speaker 1: and so such hearts, though summary in each one suffering, still,
• 3:13:36
  Speaker 1: if the gods decree it in their lifetime, aggregate a
• 3:13:39
  Speaker 1: whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities.
• 3:13:45
  Speaker 1: For even in their pointless centers, those noble natures contain
• 3:13:49
  Speaker 1: the entire circumferences of inferior souls. The harpoon, said Ahab,
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 1: half way, rising and draggingly, leaning on one bended arm.
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 1: Is it safe, I, sir? For it was not darted?
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 1: This is it, said Stubb, showing it. Lay it before me.
• 3:14:08
  Speaker 1: Any missing men? One, two, three, four five? There were
• 3:14:14
  Speaker 1: five oars, sir, And here are five men. That's good.
• 3:14:18
  Speaker 1: Help me man, I wish to stand so so I
• 3:14:23
  Speaker 1: see him there there, going to leeward. Still, what a
• 3:14:27
  Speaker 1: leaping spout, hands off from me. The eternal sap runs
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: up in Ahab's bones again, set the sail outdoors the helm.
• 3:14:40
  Speaker 1: It is often the case that when a boat is stove,
• 3:14:43
  Speaker 1: its crew being picked up by another boat helped to
• 3:14:46
  Speaker 1: work that second boat, and the chase is thus continued
• 3:14:49
  Speaker 1: with what is called double banked oars. It was thus now,
• 3:14:53
  Speaker 1: But the added power of the boat did not equal
• 3:14:56
  Speaker 1: the added power of the whale, for he seemed to
• 3:14:58
  Speaker 1: have treble banked his fin, swimming with a velocity which
• 3:15:02
  Speaker 1: plainly showed that, if now under these circumstances pushed on,
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 1: the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged if not a
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 1: hopeless one. Nor could any crew endure for so long
• 3:15:13
  Speaker 1: a period such an unintermitted intense straining at the oar,
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 1: a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude.
• 3:15:23
  Speaker 1: The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 1: most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase. Accordingly, the
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 1: boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up
• 3:15:34
  Speaker 1: to their cranes, the two parts of the wrecked boat
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 1: having been previously secured by her, and then hoisting everything
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: to her side and stacking her canvas high up and
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 1: sideways outstretching it with stuncils like the double jointed wings
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: of an albatross. The peaquad bore down in the lurd
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 1: wake of Moby Dick at the well known methodic intervals.
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: The whale's glittering spout was regularly announced from the man
• 3:16:00
  Speaker 1: and mast heads, and when he would be reported as
• 3:16:03
  Speaker 1: just gone down, Ahab would take the time, and then,
• 3:16:07
  Speaker 1: pacing the deck binnacle watch in hand, so soon as
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 1: the last second of the allotted hour expired, his voice
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 1: was heard, who's as the de bloon, now d'ye see him?
• 3:16:18
  Speaker 1: And if the reply was no, sir, straightway, he commanded
• 3:16:22
  Speaker 1: them to lift him to his perch. In this way
• 3:16:25
  Speaker 1: the day wore on Ahab, now aloft and motionless, anon
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 1: unrestingly pacing the planks. As he was thus walking, uttering
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: no sound except to hail the men aloft, or to
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 1: bid them hoist a sail still higher, or to spread
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 1: one to a still greater breadth. Thus to and fro,
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: pacing beneath his slouched hat, at every turn, he passed
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped upon the
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 1: quarter deck, and lay there reversed, broken bow to shattered stern.
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 1: At last he paused before it, and as in an
• 3:16:58
  Speaker 1: already overclouded sky, fresh troops of clouds will sometimes sail across,
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: so over the old man's face. There now stole some
• 3:17:06
  Speaker 1: such added gloom as this Stubb saw him pause, and,
• 3:17:11
  Speaker 1: perhaps intending not vainly though, to evince his own unabated
• 3:17:15
  Speaker 1: fortitude and thus keep up a valiant place in his
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: captain's mind. He advanced, and, eyeing the wreck, exclaimed the thistle.
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: The ass refused it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir, ha,
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: What soulless thing is this? That laughs before a wreck? Man? Man?
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 1: Did I not know thee brave, as fearless fire and
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: as mechanical? I could swear? Thou wert a pultroon groan
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: nor laugh should be heard before a wreck? Aye? Aye, sir,
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: said Starbuck drawing near 'tis a solemn sight, an omen
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 1: and an ill one omen omen the dictionary. If the
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 1: gods think to speak out right to man, they will
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: honorably speak outright, not shake their heads and give an
• 3:18:07
  Speaker 1: old wives darkling hint be gone. Ye too, are the
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: opposite poles of one thing. Starbuck is stub reversed, and
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 1: Stub is Starbuck, And ye too are all mankind. And
• 3:18:21
  Speaker 1: Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth,
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: nor gods nor men his neighbors. Cold cold, I shiver,
• 3:18:33
  Speaker 1: how now aloft there do you see him sing out
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: for every spout, though he spout ten times a second.
• 3:18:43
  Speaker 1: The day was nearly done. Only the hem of his
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 1: golden robe was rustling. Soon it was almost dark, but
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 1: the lookout men still remained on set. Can't see the
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 1: spout now, sir, too dark, cried a voice from the air.
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 1: How heading when last seen as before, sir, straight to
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: Lord Good. He will travel slower. Now tis night, down royals,
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 1: and to gallant stun sails. Mister Starbuck, we must not
• 3:19:11
  Speaker 1: run over him before morning. He's making a passage now,
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 1: and may heave two a while. Helm there, keep her
• 3:19:19
  Speaker 1: full before the wind aloft come down, mister Stubbs, send
• 3:19:24
  Speaker 1: a fresh hand to the foremast head and see it
• 3:19:27
  Speaker 1: manned till morning. Then advancing toward the dobloon in the
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 1: mainmast men, this gold is mine, for I earned it.
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: But I shall let it abide here till the white
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 1: whale is dead. And then whosoever of you first raises
• 3:19:43
  Speaker 1: him upon the day he shall be killed. This gold
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 1: is that man's. And if on that day I shall
• 3:19:49
  Speaker 1: again raise him, then ten times its sum shall be
• 3:19:53
  Speaker 1: divided among all of ye. Away. Now the deck is thine, sir,
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 1: and so saying he placed himself halfway within the scuttle, and,
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 1: slouching his hat, stood there till dawn, except when at
• 3:20:07
  Speaker 1: intervals rousing himself to see how the night wore. On
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 1: end of chapter one hundred thirty three Chapter one hundred
• 3:20:18
  Speaker 1: thirty four the chase. Second day, at daybreak, the three
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: mastheads were punctually manned afresh. Do you see him, cried Ahab,
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 1: after allowing a little space for the light to spread.
• 3:20:35
  Speaker 1: See nothing, sir, Turn up all hands and make sail.
• 3:20:39
  Speaker 1: He travels faster than I thought for the to gallant sails. Aye,
• 3:20:44
  Speaker 1: they should have been kept on her all night. But
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 1: no matter tis but resting for the rush. Here be
• 3:20:51
  Speaker 1: it said that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale,
• 3:20:56
  Speaker 1: continued through day into night, and through night into day,
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 1: is a thing, by no means unprecedented in the South
• 3:21:02
  Speaker 1: Sea fishery. For such is the wonderful skill pressiens of
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: experience and invincible confidence acquired by some great natural geniuses
• 3:21:12
  Speaker 1: among the Nantucket commanders, that from the simple observation of
• 3:21:16
  Speaker 1: a whale, when last described, they will, under certain given
• 3:21:19
  Speaker 1: circumstances pretty accurately foretell both the direction in which he
• 3:21:23
  Speaker 1: will continue to swim for a time while out of sight,
• 3:21:26
  Speaker 1: as well as his probable rate of progression during that period,
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 1: and in these cases somewhat as a pilot when about
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: losing sight of the coast whose general trending he well knows,
• 3:21:38
  Speaker 1: and which he desires shortly to return to again, but
• 3:21:41
  Speaker 1: at some further point, Like as this pilot stands by
• 3:21:44
  Speaker 1: his compass and takes the precise bearing of the cape
• 3:21:48
  Speaker 1: at present visible in order the more certainly to hit
• 3:21:51
  Speaker 1: aright the remote unseen headland eventually to be visited, so
• 3:21:55
  Speaker 1: does the fisherman at his compass with the whale, For
• 3:21:59
  Speaker 1: after being chased and diligently marked through several hours of daylight,
• 3:22:04
  Speaker 1: then when night obscures the fish, the creature's future wake
• 3:22:07
  Speaker 1: through the darkness is almost as established to the sagacious
• 3:22:11
  Speaker 1: mind of the hunter as the pilot's coast is to him,
• 3:22:15
  Speaker 1: So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence
• 3:22:19
  Speaker 1: of a thing writ in water awake is to all
• 3:22:23
  Speaker 1: desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land,
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 1: and as the mighty iron leviathan of the modern railway
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 1: is so familiarly known in its every pace, that with
• 3:22:35
  Speaker 1: watches in their hands, men time his rate, as doctors
• 3:22:39
  Speaker 1: that of a baby's pulse, and lightly say of it,
• 3:22:42
  Speaker 1: the up train or the down train will reach such
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 1: and such a spot at such and such an hour.
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 1: Even so, almost there are occasions when these nantucketers time
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 1: that other leviathan of the deep according to the observed
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 1: humor of his speed, and say to themselves, so many hours,
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: hence this whale will have gone two hundred miles, will
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 1: have about reached this or that degree of latitude or longitude.
• 3:23:08
  Speaker 1: But to render this acuteness at all successful in the end,
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 1: the wind and the sea must be the whaleman's allies.
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 1: For of what present avail to the becalmed or wind
• 3:23:17
  Speaker 1: bound mariner is the skill that assures him that he
• 3:23:20
  Speaker 1: is exactly ninety three leagues and a quarter from his port.
• 3:23:24
  Speaker 1: Inferable from these statements are many collateral, subtle matters touching
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 1: the chase of whales the ship tore on leaving such
• 3:23:33
  Speaker 1: a furrow in the sea, as when a cannon ball
• 3:23:36
  Speaker 1: miss scent, becomes a plowshare and turns up the level
• 3:23:39
  Speaker 1: field by salt and hemp cried Stubb. But this swift
• 3:23:44
  Speaker 1: motion of the deck creeps up one's legs and tingles
• 3:23:47
  Speaker 1: at the heart. This ship and I are two brave fellows.
• 3:23:51
  Speaker 1: Ha ha. Someone take me up and launch me spine
• 3:23:54
  Speaker 1: wise on the sea, for by live oaks, my spine's
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 1: a keel ha ha. We go the gate that leaves
• 3:24:01
  Speaker 1: no dust behind there. She blows, she blows, she blows
• 3:24:07
  Speaker 1: right ahead. Was now the masthead, cry I, I cried Stubb.
• 3:24:12
  Speaker 1: I knew it. You can't escape. Blow on and split
• 3:24:16
  Speaker 1: your spout, o wail the mad fiend himself is after
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 1: you blow your trump, blister your lungs. Ahab will dam
• 3:24:25
  Speaker 1: off your blood as a miller shuts his watergate upon
• 3:24:28
  Speaker 1: the stream. And Stubb did but speak out for well
• 3:24:32
  Speaker 1: nigh all the crew. The frenzies of the chase had
• 3:24:36
  Speaker 1: by this time worked them bubblingly up like old wine
• 3:24:39
  Speaker 1: worked anew. Whatever pale fears and foreboding some of them
• 3:24:43
  Speaker 1: might have felt before, these were not only now kept
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: out of sight through the growing awe of Ahab, but
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 1: they were broken up and on all sides, routed as
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 1: timid prairie hares that scatter before the bounding bison. The
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 1: hand of fate had snatched all their sol and by
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 1: the stirring perils of the previous day, the rack of
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: the past night's suspense, the fixed, unfearing, blind, reckless way
• 3:25:09
  Speaker 1: in which their wild craft went plunging toward its flying mark.
• 3:25:13
  Speaker 1: By all these things their hearts were bowled along the
• 3:25:17
  Speaker 1: wind that made great bellies of their sails, and rushed
• 3:25:20
  Speaker 1: the vessel on by arms invisible as irresistible. This seemed
• 3:25:25
  Speaker 1: the symbol of that unseen agency which so enslaved them
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 1: to the race. They were one man, not thirty, For
• 3:25:34
  Speaker 1: as the one ship that held them all, though it
• 3:25:36
  Speaker 1: was put together of all contrasting things, oak and maple
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 1: and pinewood, iron and pitch and hemp, yet all these
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 1: ran into each other, into the one concrete hull, which
• 3:25:48
  Speaker 1: shot on its way, both balanced and directed by the
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: long central keel. Even so, all the individualities of the crew,
• 3:25:56
  Speaker 1: this man's valor, that man's fear, guilt and in guiltiness,
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 1: all varieties were welded into oneness, and were all directed
• 3:26:05
  Speaker 1: to that fatal goal which ahab their one lord and
• 3:26:08
  Speaker 1: keel did point to. The rigging lived the mast heads,
• 3:26:15
  Speaker 1: like the tops of tall palms, were out spreadingly, tufted
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: with arms and legs, clinging to a spar with one hand.
• 3:26:23
  Speaker 1: Some reached forth the other with impatient wavings. Others, shading
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: the rocking yards, all the spars in full bearing of mortals,
• 3:26:35
  Speaker 1: ready and ripe for their fate. Ah, how they still
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 1: strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing
• 3:26:42
  Speaker 1: that might destroy them? Why sing ye not out for him?
• 3:26:46
  Speaker 1: If ye see him? Cried Ahab, when after the lapse
• 3:26:49
  Speaker 1: of some minutes since the first cry no more had
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: been heard. Sway me up, men, you have been deceived.
• 3:26:57
  Speaker 1: Not moby dick cast one odd jet that way and
• 3:27:00
  Speaker 1: then disappears. It was even so in their headlong eagerness,
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: the men had mistaken some other thing for the whale spout,
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 1: as the event itself soon proved. For hardly had Ahab
• 3:27:12
  Speaker 1: reached his perch, hardly was the rope belayed to its
• 3:27:16
  Speaker 1: pin on the deck when he struck the keynote to
• 3:27:18
  Speaker 1: an orchestra that made the air vibrate as with the
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: combined discharges of rifles. The triumphant halloo of thirty buckskin
• 3:27:26
  Speaker 1: lungs was heard as much nearer to the ship than
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: the place of the imaginary jet Moby Dick bodily burst
• 3:27:33
  Speaker 1: into view. For not by any calm or indolent spoutings,
• 3:27:38
  Speaker 1: not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 1: his head, did the white whale now reveal his vicinity,
• 3:27:45
  Speaker 1: but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching. Rising
• 3:27:49
  Speaker 1: with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths. The sperm
• 3:27:53
  Speaker 1: whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element
• 3:27:57
  Speaker 1: of air, and piling up a mountain of das foam,
• 3:28:01
  Speaker 1: shows his place to the distance of seven miles or more.
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 1: In those moments, the torn, enraged waves he shakes off
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: seem his mane. In some cases, this breaching is his
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 1: act of defiance. There she breaches, There she breaches, was
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 1: the cry as in his immeasurable bravadoes. The white whale
• 3:28:22
  Speaker 1: tossed himself salmon like to heaven, so suddenly seen in
• 3:28:26
  Speaker 1: the blue plain of the sea, and relieved against the
• 3:28:29
  Speaker 1: still bluer margin of the sky. The spray that he
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 1: raised for the moment intolerably glittered and glared like a glacier,
• 3:28:37
  Speaker 1: and stood there gradually fading and fading away from its
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: first sparkling intensity, to the dim mistiness of an advancing
• 3:28:45
  Speaker 1: shower in a veil. A breach your last to the sun,
• 3:28:50
  Speaker 1: moby Dick cried, Ahab, thy hour and thy harpoon are
• 3:28:54
  Speaker 1: at hand, down, down all of yea but one man
• 3:28:58
  Speaker 1: at the four the boats stand by, unmindful of the
• 3:29:03
  Speaker 1: tedious rope ladders of the shrouds. The men, like shooting stars,
• 3:29:07
  Speaker 1: slid to the deck by the isolated backstays and halliards,
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 1: while Ahab, less dartingly but still rapidly, was dropped from
• 3:29:15
  Speaker 1: his perch lower away, he cried, so soon as he
• 3:29:19
  Speaker 1: had reached his boat, a spare one rigged the afternoon previous,
• 3:29:23
  Speaker 1: mister Starbuck, the ship is thine. Keep away from the boats,
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 1: but keep near them, lower, all as if to strike
• 3:29:31
  Speaker 1: a quick terror into them. By this time, being the
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 1: first assailant himself, moby Dick had turned and was now
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 1: coming for the three crews. Ahab's boat was central, and
• 3:29:42
  Speaker 1: cheering his men, he told them he would take the
• 3:29:44
  Speaker 1: whale head and head that his pull straight up to
• 3:29:47
  Speaker 1: his forehead, a not uncommon thing, for when within a
• 3:29:51
  Speaker 1: certain limit, such a course excludes the coming onset from
• 3:29:54
  Speaker 1: the whale's sidelong vision. But ere that close limit was gained,
• 3:29:59
  Speaker 1: And while yet all three boats were plain as the
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 1: ship's three masts to his eye, the white whale, churning
• 3:30:05
  Speaker 1: himself into furious speed, almost in an instant, as it were,
• 3:30:09
  Speaker 1: rushing among the boats with open jaws and a lashing tail,
• 3:30:13
  Speaker 1: offered appalling battle on every side, and heedless of the
• 3:30:17
  Speaker 1: irons darted at him from every boat, seemed only intent
• 3:30:20
  Speaker 1: on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made,
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 1: but skillfully maneuvered, incessantly, wheeling like trained chargers in the field.
• 3:30:30
  Speaker 1: The boats for a while eluded him, though at times
• 3:30:33
  Speaker 1: but by a plank's breadth, while all the time Ahab's
• 3:30:36
  Speaker 1: unearthly slogan tore every other cry but his to shreds.
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: But at last, in his untraceable evolutions, the white whale
• 3:30:46
  Speaker 1: so crossed and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled
• 3:30:50
  Speaker 1: the slack of the three lines now fast to him,
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 1: that they foreshortened, and of themselves warped the devoted boats
• 3:30:57
  Speaker 1: toward the planted irons in him. Now for a moment,
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: the whale drew aside a little, as if to rally
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: for a more tremendous charge. Seizing that opportunity, Ahab first
• 3:31:08
  Speaker 1: paid out more line, and then was rapidly hauling and
• 3:31:12
  Speaker 1: jerking in upon it again, hoping that way to disencumber
• 3:31:15
  Speaker 1: it of some snarls. When low a sight more savage
• 3:31:20
  Speaker 1: than the embattled teeth of sharks caught and twisted corkscrewed
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 1: in the mazes of the line, Loose harpoons and lances,
• 3:31:28
  Speaker 1: with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and
• 3:31:32
  Speaker 1: dripping up to the chalks in the bows of Ahab's boat.
• 3:31:36
  Speaker 1: Only one thing could be done. Seizing the boat knife,
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 1: he critically reached within, through and then without the rays
• 3:31:43
  Speaker 1: of steel dragged in the line beyond, passed it inboard
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 1: to the bowsman, and then twice, sundering the rope near
• 3:31:51
  Speaker 1: the chalks, dropped the intercepted faggot of steel into the sea,
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 1: and was all fast again. That instant, the white whale
• 3:31:59
  Speaker 1: made a sudden rush among the remaining tangles of the
• 3:32:02
  Speaker 1: other lines. By so doing irresistibly dragged the more involved
• 3:32:06
  Speaker 1: boats of stub and flask toward his flukes dashed them
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 1: together like two rolling husks on a surf beaten beach,
• 3:32:14
  Speaker 1: and then diving down into the sea, disappeared in a
• 3:32:17
  Speaker 1: boiling maelstrom, in which for a space the odorous cedar
• 3:32:21
  Speaker 1: chips of the wrecks danced round and round, like the
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 1: grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch, while
• 3:32:29
  Speaker 1: the two crews were yet circling in the waters, reaching
• 3:32:32
  Speaker 1: out after the revolving line, tubs, oars, and other floating furniture,
• 3:32:37
  Speaker 1: while a slope little flask bobbed up and down like
• 3:32:40
  Speaker 1: an empty vial, twitching his legs upwards to escape the
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: dreaded jaws of sharks, and stub was lustily singing out
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 1: for someone to ladle him up, And while the old
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: man's line, now parting, admitted of his pulling into the
• 3:32:54
  Speaker 1: creamy pool to rescue whom he could. In that wild
• 3:32:58
  Speaker 1: simultaneousness of a thousand concreted perils, Ahab's yet unstricken boat
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 1: seemed drawn up towards Heaven by invisible wires as arrow
• 3:33:08
  Speaker 1: like shooting perpendicularly from the sea, the white whale dashed
• 3:33:12
  Speaker 1: his broad forehead against its bottom and sent it turning
• 3:33:16
  Speaker 1: over and over into the air till it fell again,
• 3:33:19
  Speaker 1: gunnelled downwards, and Ahab and his men struggled from out
• 3:33:23
  Speaker 1: under it like seals from a seaside cave. The first
• 3:33:27
  Speaker 1: uprising momentum of the whale, modifying its direction as he
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 1: struck the surface, involuntarily launched him along it to a
• 3:33:35
  Speaker 1: little distance from the center of the destruction he had made,
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: And with his back to it, he now lay for
• 3:33:41
  Speaker 1: a moment, slowly feeling with his flukes from side to side,
• 3:33:45
  Speaker 1: and whenever a stray oar bit of plank, the least
• 3:33:48
  Speaker 1: chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his
• 3:33:51
  Speaker 1: tail swiftly drew back and came sideways smiting the sea.
• 3:33:56
  Speaker 1: But soon, as if satisfied that his work for that
• 3:33:59
  Speaker 1: time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the ocean, and,
• 3:34:03
  Speaker 1: trailing after him, the intertangled lines continued his lured way
• 3:34:07
  Speaker 1: at a traveler's methodic pace. As before, the attentive ship,
• 3:34:13
  Speaker 1: having descried the whole fight, again came bearing down to
• 3:34:17
  Speaker 1: the rescue, and dropping a boat, picked up the floating mariners, tubs, oars,
• 3:34:22
  Speaker 1: and whatever else could be caught at and safely landed
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 1: them on her decks. Some sprained shoulders, wrists, ankles, livid contusions,
• 3:34:31
  Speaker 1: wrenched harpoons and lances, inextricable intricacies of rope, shattered oars
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: and planks. All these were there, But no fatal or
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: even serious ill seemed to have befallen anyone. As with
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: Fidala the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 1: clinging to his boat's broken half, which afforded a comparatively
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 1: easy float. Nor did it so exhaust him as the
• 3:34:55
  Speaker 1: previous day's mishap. But when he was helped to the deck,
• 3:34:59
  Speaker 1: all all eyes were fastened upon him, as, instead of
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 1: standing by himself, he still half hung upon the shoulder
• 3:35:06
  Speaker 1: of Starbuck, who had thus far been the foremost to
• 3:35:09
  Speaker 1: assist him. His ivory leg had been snapped off, leaving
• 3:35:13
  Speaker 1: but one short sharp splinter. Ay. Ay, Starbuck tis sweet
• 3:35:20
  Speaker 1: to lean sometimes be the leaner who he will and
• 3:35:24
  Speaker 1: would old Ahab had leaned oftener than he has. The
• 3:35:28
  Speaker 1: feral has not stood, sir, said the carpenter, now coming up.
• 3:35:33
  Speaker 1: I put good work into that leg, but no bones broken, Sir,
• 3:35:38
  Speaker 1: I hope, said Stub with true concern. Aye, and all
• 3:35:43
  Speaker 1: splintered to pieces. Stub, ne' you see it. But even
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 1: with a broken bone, old Ahab is untouched. And I
• 3:35:50
  Speaker 1: account no living bone of mine one jot more me
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: than this dead one that's lost, Nor white whale, nor
• 3:35:58
  Speaker 1: man nor fiend can so much as Gray's old a
• 3:36:02
  Speaker 1: have in his own proper and inaccessible being. Can any
• 3:36:06
  Speaker 1: lead touch yonder floor, any masked scrape yonder roof aloft? There?
• 3:36:12
  Speaker 1: Which way dead to Lord Sir up Helm. Then pile
• 3:36:17
  Speaker 1: on the sail again. Shipkeepers down the rest of the
• 3:36:20
  Speaker 1: spare boats and rig them, mister Starbuck away, and muster
• 3:36:24
  Speaker 1: the boat's crews. Let me first help thee towards the bulwark. Sir, oh,
• 3:36:30
  Speaker 1: oh oh, how this splinter gores me now, a cursed
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: fate that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have
• 3:36:39
  Speaker 1: such a craven mate. Sir, my body man, not thee.
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 1: Give me something for a cane there that shivered lance
• 3:36:49
  Speaker 1: will do. Muster the men. Surely I have not seen
• 3:36:54
  Speaker 1: him yet, By Heaven, it cannot be missing. Quick call
• 3:36:59
  Speaker 1: them all. The old man's hinted thought was true. Upon
• 3:37:04
  Speaker 1: mustering the company, the Parsi was not there. The Parsi cried, Stubb,
• 3:37:11
  Speaker 1: he must have been caught in the black vomit, wrench
• 3:37:14
  Speaker 1: thee run all of ye above, Hello, cabin forecastle, find
• 3:37:19
  Speaker 1: him not gone, not gone. But quickly they returned to
• 3:37:24
  Speaker 1: him with the tidings that the Parsi was nowhere to
• 3:37:27
  Speaker 1: be found. I, sir, said Stubb, caught among the tangles
• 3:37:31
  Speaker 1: of your line. I thought I saw him dragging under
• 3:37:35
  Speaker 1: my line. My line gone gone? What means that little word?
• 3:37:44
  Speaker 1: What death knell rings in it? That old ahab shakes
• 3:37:47
  Speaker 1: as if he were the belfry, the harpoon too, toss
• 3:37:52
  Speaker 1: over the litter there, d'ye see it? The forged iron man,
• 3:37:56
  Speaker 1: the white whales. No, no, no blistered fool. This hand
• 3:38:03
  Speaker 1: did darted tis in the fish aloft there, Keep him nailed. Quick,
• 3:38:09
  Speaker 1: All hands to the rigging of the boats. Collect the oars, harpooneers,
• 3:38:13
  Speaker 1: the irons, the irons, hoist the royals higher, a pull
• 3:38:18
  Speaker 1: on all the sheets. Helm there, steady, steady, for your life.
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: I'll ten times girdle the unmeasured globe, yea, and drive
• 3:38:27
  Speaker 1: straight through it. But I'll slay him yet, Great God,
• 3:38:32
  Speaker 1: but for one single instant show thyself, cried Starbuck. Never
• 3:38:38
  Speaker 1: never wilt thou capture him? Old man in Jesus name,
• 3:38:42
  Speaker 1: no more of this that's worse than devil's madness. Two
• 3:38:46
  Speaker 1: days chase twice stove to splinters, thy very leg once
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 1: more snatched from under thee, Thy evil shadow gone, All
• 3:38:55
  Speaker 1: good angels mobbing thee with warnings. What more wouldst thou have?
• 3:39:00
  Speaker 1: Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps
• 3:39:03
  Speaker 1: the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the sea. Shall we be towed by
• 3:39:09
  Speaker 1: him to the infernal world? Oh, oh, impiety and blasphemy
• 3:39:14
  Speaker 1: to hunt him more? Starbuck of late, I felt strangely
• 3:39:19
  Speaker 1: moved to thee. Ever since that hour we both saw
• 3:39:24
  Speaker 1: thou know'st what in each other's eyes. But in this
• 3:39:27
  Speaker 1: matter of the whale, be the front of thy face
• 3:39:30
  Speaker 1: to me as the palm of this hand, A lipless,
• 3:39:34
  Speaker 1: unfeatured blank ahab is forever ahab man. This whole acts
• 3:39:40
  Speaker 1: immutably decreed, twas rehearsed by THEE and me a billion
• 3:39:44
  Speaker 1: years before this ocean rolled. Fool. I am the fates, Lieutenant,
• 3:39:51
  Speaker 1: I act under orders. Look thou underling that thou obeyest mine.
• 3:39:56
  Speaker 1: Stand round me, men, you see an old man and
• 3:40:00
  Speaker 1: cut down to the stump, leaning on a shivered lance
• 3:40:03
  Speaker 1: propped up on a lonely foot. Tis Ahab his body's part,
• 3:40:09
  Speaker 1: But Ahab's soul's a centipede that moves upon a hundred legs.
• 3:40:14
  Speaker 1: I feel strained, half stranded as ropes that tow dismasted
• 3:40:19
  Speaker 1: frigates in a gale. And I may look so, but
• 3:40:23
  Speaker 1: ere I break. You'll hear me crack. Until you hear that,
• 3:40:28
  Speaker 1: Know that Ahab's hawser toes his purpose. Yet believe ye,
• 3:40:32
  Speaker 1: men in the things called omens, then laugh aloud and
• 3:40:36
  Speaker 1: cry encore, for ere they drown. Drowning things will twice
• 3:40:40
  Speaker 1: rise to the surface, then rise again to sink forevermore
• 3:40:45
  Speaker 1: so with moby Dick. Two days he's floated. Tomorrow will
• 3:40:50
  Speaker 1: be the third. Aye, men, he'll rise once more, but
• 3:40:54
  Speaker 1: only to spout his last. Do you feel brave? Men?
• 3:40:59
  Speaker 1: Brave has fearless fire, cried Stubb, and as mechanical muttered Ahab.
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 1: Then as the men went forward, he muttered on the
• 3:41:11
  Speaker 1: things called omens. And yesterday I talked the same to
• 3:41:15
  Speaker 1: Starbuck there concerning my broken boat. Oh, how valiantly I
• 3:41:20
  Speaker 1: seek to drive out of others hearts. What's clinched so
• 3:41:23
  Speaker 1: fast in mine the PARSI the parsy gone gone, and
• 3:41:30
  Speaker 1: he was to go before, but still was to be
• 3:41:33
  Speaker 1: seen again ere I could perish. How's that? There's a
• 3:41:38
  Speaker 1: riddle now? Might baffle all the lawyers, backed by the
• 3:41:41
  Speaker 1: ghosts of the whole line of judges like a hawk's beak.
• 3:41:45
  Speaker 1: It pecks my brain. Ah I'll solve it. Though, when
• 3:41:51
  Speaker 1: dusk descended, the whale was still in sight to leeward,
• 3:41:55
  Speaker 1: so once more the sail was shortened, and everything passed
• 3:41:58
  Speaker 1: nearly as on the previous night, Only the sound of
• 3:42:01
  Speaker 1: hammers and the hum of the grindstone was heard till
• 3:42:05
  Speaker 1: nearly daylight, as the men toiled by lanterns in the
• 3:42:08
  Speaker 1: complete and careful rigging of the spare boats and sharpening
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 1: their fresh weapons for the morrow. Meantime, of the broken
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 1: keel of Ahab's wrecked craft, the carpenter made him another leg.
• 3:42:20
  Speaker 1: While still, as on the night before, slouched, Ahab stood
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 1: fixed within his scuttle, His hid heliotrope glance, anticipatingly gone
• 3:42:29
  Speaker 1: backward on its dial, sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
• 3:42:36
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter one hundred thirty four. Chapter one hundred
• 3:42:39
  Speaker 1: thirty five the chase third day. The morning of the
• 3:42:45
  Speaker 1: third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the
• 3:42:49
  Speaker 1: solitary nightman of the foremast head was relieved by crowds
• 3:42:53
  Speaker 1: of the daylight lookouts, who dotted every mast in almost
• 3:42:57
  Speaker 1: every spar Do you see him, cried Ahab. But the
• 3:43:01
  Speaker 1: wail was not yet in sight in his infallible wake, though,
• 3:43:06
  Speaker 1: But follow that wake, that's all Helm there, steady as
• 3:43:10
  Speaker 1: thou goest, and hast been going. What a lovely day again?
• 3:43:15
  Speaker 1: Were it a new made world and made for a
• 3:43:18
  Speaker 1: summer house to the angels? And this morning the first
• 3:43:21
  Speaker 1: of its throwing open to them. A fairer day could
• 3:43:24
  Speaker 1: not dawn upon that world. Here's food for thought. Had
• 3:43:29
  Speaker 1: Ahab time to think? But Ahab and never thinks. He
• 3:43:33
  Speaker 1: only feels, feels, feels. That's tingling enough for mortal man
• 3:43:39
  Speaker 1: to Think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege.
• 3:43:45
  Speaker 1: Thinking is or ought to be a coolness and a calmness.
• 3:43:49
  Speaker 1: And our poor hearts throb and our poor brains beat
• 3:43:53
  Speaker 1: too much for that. And yet I've sometimes thought my
• 3:43:57
  Speaker 1: brain was very calm. Frozen, this old skull cracks so
• 3:44:03
  Speaker 1: like a glass in which the contents turn to ice
• 3:44:06
  Speaker 1: and shiver it. And still this hair is growing, now,
• 3:44:11
  Speaker 1: this moment growing, and heat must breed it. But no,
• 3:44:16
  Speaker 1: it's like that sort of common grass that will grow
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: anywhere between the earthly clefts of greenland ice or in
• 3:44:22
  Speaker 1: Vesuvius's lava. How the wild winds blow it. They whip
• 3:44:27
  Speaker 1: it about me, as the torn shreds of split sails
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 1: lash the tossed ship. They cling to a vile wind
• 3:44:36
  Speaker 1: that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors
• 3:44:39
  Speaker 1: and cells and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and
• 3:44:44
  Speaker 1: now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces out upon it.
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 1: It's tainted Where I the wind, I'd blow no more
• 3:44:54
  Speaker 1: on such a wicked, miserable world. I'd crawl somewhere to
• 3:44:58
  Speaker 1: a cave and slink there. And yet tis a noble
• 3:45:02
  Speaker 1: and heroic thing, the wind. Whoever conquered it, in every
• 3:45:06
  Speaker 1: fight it has the last and bitterest blow. Run tilting
• 3:45:10
  Speaker 1: at it, and you but run through it. Ha a
• 3:45:14
  Speaker 1: coward wind that strikes stark naked men, but will not
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 1: stand to receive a single blow. Even Ahab is a
• 3:45:22
  Speaker 1: braver thing, a nobler thing than that would now the wind,
• 3:45:27
  Speaker 1: but had a body. But all the things that most
• 3:45:30
  Speaker 1: exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless,
• 3:45:35
  Speaker 1: but only bodiless as objects, not as agents. There's a
• 3:45:39
  Speaker 1: most special, a most cunning, oh, a most malicious difference.
• 3:45:45
  Speaker 1: And yet I say again and swear it now, that
• 3:45:48
  Speaker 1: there's something all glorious and gracious in the wind. These
• 3:45:52
  Speaker 1: warm trade winds, at least that in the clear heavens,
• 3:45:56
  Speaker 1: blow straight on in strong and steadfast vigor is mildness,
• 3:46:01
  Speaker 1: and veer not from their mark. However, the baser currents
• 3:46:04
  Speaker 1: of the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest mississippis
• 3:46:08
  Speaker 1: of the land swift and swerve about, uncertain where to go.
• 3:46:12
  Speaker 1: At last, and by the eternal poles, these same trades
• 3:46:17
  Speaker 1: that so directly blow my good ship on, these trades
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 1: are something like them, something so unchangeable and full as strong,
• 3:46:26
  Speaker 1: blow my keeled soul along to it. Aloft there, what
• 3:46:32
  Speaker 1: do you see? Nothing, sir? Nothing? And noon at hand
• 3:46:39
  Speaker 1: the do bloon goes a begging see the sun? Aye? Aye,
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: it must be so I've oversailed him? How got the start? Ay?
• 3:46:50
  Speaker 1: He's chasing me? Now, not I him? That's bad. I
• 3:46:55
  Speaker 1: might have known it too fool the lines, the harp
• 3:47:00
  Speaker 1: woons he's towing. Ay ay, I have run by him
• 3:47:04
  Speaker 1: last night about about come down, all of you, but
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 1: the regular lookouts man the braces. Steering as she had done,
• 3:47:13
  Speaker 1: The wind had been somewhat on the pequad's quarter, so
• 3:47:16
  Speaker 1: that now being pointed in the reverse direction, the braced
• 3:47:20
  Speaker 1: ship sailed hard upon the breeze as she rechurned the
• 3:47:23
  Speaker 1: cream in her own white wake against the wind. He
• 3:47:27
  Speaker 1: now steers for the open jaw, murmured Starbuck to himself,
• 3:47:31
  Speaker 1: as he coiled the new hauled main brace upon the rail.
• 3:47:35
  Speaker 1: God keep us, But already my bones feel damp within me,
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 1: and from the inside wet my flesh. I misdoubt me
• 3:47:43
  Speaker 1: that I disobey my God in obeying him. Stand by
• 3:47:49
  Speaker 1: to sway me up, cried Ahab, advancing to the hempen basket.
• 3:47:53
  Speaker 1: We should meet him soon, Aye aye, sir, And straightway,
• 3:47:58
  Speaker 1: Starbuck did Ahab's bidding, and once more Ahab swung on high.
• 3:48:03
  Speaker 1: A whole hour now passed, gold beaten out to ages.
• 3:48:08
  Speaker 1: Time itself now held long breaths with keen surprise, but
• 3:48:12
  Speaker 1: at last, some three points off the weather bow, Ahab
• 3:48:15
  Speaker 1: descried the spout again, and instantly from the three mast heads,
• 3:48:20
  Speaker 1: three shrieks went up, as if the tongues of fire
• 3:48:23
  Speaker 1: had voisted forehead to forehead. I meet thee this third time.
• 3:48:29
  Speaker 1: Moby Dick on deck there, brace sharper up, crowd her
• 3:48:33
  Speaker 1: into the wind's eye. He's too far off to lower yet,
• 3:48:37
  Speaker 1: mister Starbuck, the sail shake stand over that helmsman with
• 3:48:42
  Speaker 1: a top maul, So so he travels fast, and I
• 3:48:47
  Speaker 1: must down. But let me have one more good look
• 3:48:50
  Speaker 1: round aloft here at the sea. There's time for that,
• 3:48:54
  Speaker 1: an old old sight, and yet somehow so young, aye,
• 3:48:59
  Speaker 1: and not changed a wink since I first saw it,
• 3:49:02
  Speaker 1: a boy from the sand hills of Nantucket. The same,
• 3:49:07
  Speaker 1: the same, The same to Noah is to me. There's
• 3:49:11
  Speaker 1: a soft shower to lard such lovely lardings. They must
• 3:49:16
  Speaker 1: lead somewhere to something else than common land, more palmy
• 3:49:20
  Speaker 1: than the palms lurd. The white whale goes that way,
• 3:49:25
  Speaker 1: Look to windward, then the better if the bitterer quarter.
• 3:49:30
  Speaker 1: But goodbye, goodbye, old mastead. What's this green? Aye? Tiny
• 3:49:37
  Speaker 1: mosses in these warped cracks. No such green weather stains
• 3:49:41
  Speaker 1: on Ahab's head. There's the difference now between man's old
• 3:49:46
  Speaker 1: age and matters. But I old mast We both grow
• 3:49:50
  Speaker 1: old together, sound in our hulls. Though are we not
• 3:49:54
  Speaker 1: my ship?
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 2: Aye?
• 3:49:56
  Speaker 1: Minus a leg? That's all by heaven. This dead w
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 1: has the better of my live flesh. Every way I
• 3:50:03
  Speaker 1: can't compare with it. And I've known some ships made
• 3:50:07
  Speaker 1: of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of
• 3:50:10
  Speaker 1: the most vital stuff, of vital fathers. What's that he said?
• 3:50:16
  Speaker 1: He should still go before me, my pilot, and yet
• 3:50:20
  Speaker 1: to be seen again. But where well? I have eyes
• 3:50:24
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the sea, supposing I descend those
• 3:50:27
  Speaker 1: endless stairs, And all night I've been sailing from him
• 3:50:32
  Speaker 1: wherever he did sink to ay, Aye, like many more,
• 3:50:37
  Speaker 1: thou told'st direful truth as touching thyself, O PARSI. But Ahab,
• 3:50:42
  Speaker 1: there thy shot fell short. Goodbye, masthead. Keep a good
• 3:50:47
  Speaker 1: eye upon the whale while I'm gone. We'll talk tomorrow,
• 3:50:52
  Speaker 1: nay tonight, when the white whale lies down there, tied
• 3:50:56
  Speaker 1: by head and tail. He gave the word, and, still
• 3:51:01
  Speaker 1: gazing round him, was steadily lowered through the cloven blue
• 3:51:04
  Speaker 1: air to the deck. In due time the boats were lowered,
• 3:51:09
  Speaker 1: but as standing in his shallop stern, Ahab just hovered
• 3:51:12
  Speaker 1: upon the point of the descent. He waved to the mate,
• 3:51:16
  Speaker 1: who held one of the tackle ropes on deck, and
• 3:51:18
  Speaker 1: bade him pause. Starbuck, Sir, for the third time, my
• 3:51:25
  Speaker 1: soul ship starts upon this voyage, Starbuck, I sir, thou
• 3:51:30
  Speaker 1: wilt have it? So some ships sail from their ports,
• 3:51:35
  Speaker 1: and ever afterwards are missing, Starbuck. Truth, sir, saddest truth.
• 3:51:41
  Speaker 1: Some men die at ebbtide, some at low water, some
• 3:51:46
  Speaker 1: at the full of the flood. And I feel now
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: like a billow. That's all one crested comb, Starbuck, I
• 3:51:54
  Speaker 1: am old. Shake hands with me. Man, Their hands met,
• 3:52:00
  Speaker 1: their eyes fastened, and Starbuck's tears the glue. Oh, my captain,
• 3:52:06
  Speaker 1: my captain, noble heart, go not go not see. It's
• 3:52:13
  Speaker 1: a brave man that weeps. How great the agony of
• 3:52:16
  Speaker 1: the persuasion. Then lower away, cried Ahab, tossing the mate's
• 3:52:22
  Speaker 1: arm from him. Stand by the crew. In an instant,
• 3:52:26
  Speaker 1: the boat was pulling round close under the stern. The sharks.
• 3:52:31
  Speaker 1: The sharks cried a voice from the low cabin window. There,
• 3:52:35
  Speaker 1: oh master, my master, come back. But Ahab heard nothing,
• 3:52:41
  Speaker 1: for his own voice was high lifted then, and the
• 3:52:44
  Speaker 1: boat leaped on. Yet the voice spake true, for scarce
• 3:52:49
  Speaker 1: had he pushed from the ship, when numbers of sharks,
• 3:52:52
  Speaker 1: seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath the hull,
• 3:52:55
  Speaker 1: maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars every time
• 3:52:59
  Speaker 1: they dipped in the water, and in this way accompanied
• 3:53:02
  Speaker 1: the boat with their bites. It is a thing not
• 3:53:04
  Speaker 1: uncommonly happening to the whale boats in those swarming seas,
• 3:53:09
  Speaker 1: the sharks at times apparently following them in the same
• 3:53:12
  Speaker 1: prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching
• 3:53:16
  Speaker 1: regiments in the east. But these were the first sharks
• 3:53:19
  Speaker 1: that had been observed by the Piquad since the white
• 3:53:22
  Speaker 1: whale had first been descried. And whether it was that
• 3:53:25
  Speaker 1: Ahab's crew were all such tiger yellow barbarians, and therefore
• 3:53:30
  Speaker 1: their flesh more musky to the senses of the sharks,
• 3:53:33
  Speaker 1: a matter sometimes well known to affect them. However it
• 3:53:37
  Speaker 1: was they seemed to follow that one boat without molesting
• 3:53:40
  Speaker 1: the others. Heart of wrought steel, murmured Starbuck, gazing over
• 3:53:46
  Speaker 1: the side and following with his eye the receding boat,
• 3:53:50
  Speaker 1: canst thou yet ring boldly to that sight, lowering thy
• 3:53:54
  Speaker 1: keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them open mouth
• 3:53:59
  Speaker 1: to the chase. And this the critical third day. For
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 1: when three days flow together in one continuous, intense pursuit,
• 3:54:08
  Speaker 1: be sure the first is the morning, the second the noon,
• 3:54:11
  Speaker 1: and the third the evening. And the end of that
• 3:54:14
  Speaker 1: thing be that end what it may? Oh my god,
• 3:54:19
  Speaker 1: what is this that shoots through me and leaves me
• 3:54:22
  Speaker 1: so deadly, calm yet expectant, fixed at the top of
• 3:54:26
  Speaker 1: a shudder? Future things swim before me as in empty
• 3:54:31
  Speaker 1: outlines and skeletons. All the past is somehow grown dim,
• 3:54:36
  Speaker 1: Mary girl, Thou fadest in pale glories behind me, boy
• 3:54:43
  Speaker 1: I seem to see, but thy eyes grown wondrous blue,
• 3:54:47
  Speaker 1: strangest problems of life seem clearing, but clouds sweep between.
• 3:54:53
  Speaker 1: Is my journey's end coming? My legs feel faint like
• 3:54:57
  Speaker 1: his who has footed it all day? Feel thy heart
• 3:55:01
  Speaker 1: beats it yet stir thyself, starbuck, stave it off, move, move,
• 3:55:08
  Speaker 1: speak aloud, masthead, There see you my boy's hand on
• 3:55:13
  Speaker 1: the hill, crazed aloft there, keep thy keenest eye on
• 3:55:20
  Speaker 1: the boats. Mark well the whil ho again, drive off
• 3:55:24
  Speaker 1: that hawk. See he pecks, he tears the vein, pointing
• 3:55:29
  Speaker 1: to the red flag flying at the main truck. Ha
• 3:55:33
  Speaker 1: he soars away with it. Where's the old man now?
• 3:55:37
  Speaker 1: Seest thou that sight? O ahab shudder shudder. The boats
• 3:55:43
  Speaker 1: had not gone very far when, by a signal from
• 3:55:46
  Speaker 1: the mast heads, a downward pointed arm. Ahab knew that
• 3:55:50
  Speaker 1: the whale had sounded, but intending to be near him
• 3:55:53
  Speaker 1: at the next rising, he held on his way a
• 3:55:56
  Speaker 1: little sideways from the vessel, the becharmed crew, maintaining the
• 3:56:00
  Speaker 1: profoundest silence as the head beat. Waves hammered and hammered
• 3:56:04
  Speaker 1: against the opposing bough. Drive drive in your nails, o ye,
• 3:56:09
  Speaker 1: waves do their uttermost heads drive them in. Ye, But
• 3:56:13
  Speaker 1: strike a thing without a lid, and no coffin, and
• 3:56:16
  Speaker 1: no hearse can be mine, and hemp only can kill me.
• 3:56:21
  Speaker 1: Ha ha. Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in
• 3:56:26
  Speaker 1: broad circles, then quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from
• 3:56:30
  Speaker 1: a submerged berg of ice. Swiftly rising to the surface.
• 3:56:35
  Speaker 1: A low rumbling sound was heard. A subterraneous hum and
• 3:56:40
  Speaker 1: then all held their breaths as bedraggled with trailing ropes
• 3:56:44
  Speaker 1: and harpoons and lances. A vast form shot lengthwise but
• 3:56:48
  Speaker 1: obliquely from the sea, Shrouded in a thin, drooping veil
• 3:56:53
  Speaker 1: of mist. It hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air,
• 3:56:56
  Speaker 1: and then fell, swamping back into the deep, crushed thirty
• 3:57:01
  Speaker 1: feet upwards, the waters flashed for an instant like heaps
• 3:57:04
  Speaker 1: of fountains. Men brokenly sank in a shower of flakes,
• 3:57:08
  Speaker 1: leaving the circling surface creamed like new milk round the
• 3:57:12
  Speaker 1: marble trunk of the whale give way. Cried ahab to
• 3:57:17
  Speaker 1: the oarsmen, and the boats darted forward to the attack,
• 3:57:21
  Speaker 1: but maddened by yesterday's fresh irons that corroded in him.
• 3:57:25
  Speaker 1: Moby Dick seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that
• 3:57:29
  Speaker 1: fell from heaven. The wide tears of welded tendons overspreading
• 3:57:33
  Speaker 1: his broad white forehead beneath the transparent skin looked knitted
• 3:57:39
  Speaker 1: together as head on. He came, churning his tail among
• 3:57:42
  Speaker 1: the boats and once more flailed them apart, spilling out
• 3:57:46
  Speaker 1: the irons and lances from the two mate's boats, and
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 1: dashing in one side of the upper part of their boughs,
• 3:57:53
  Speaker 1: but leaving Ahabs almost without a scar. While Dagout and
• 3:57:58
  Speaker 1: Quekweig were stopping the strain planks, and as the whale
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: swimming out from them, turned and showed one entire flank
• 3:58:06
  Speaker 1: as he shot by them again. At that moment a
• 3:58:09
  Speaker 1: quick cry went up, lashed round and round to the
• 3:58:13
  Speaker 1: fish's back, pinioned in the turns upon turns in which
• 3:58:17
  Speaker 1: during the past night the whale had reeled the involutions
• 3:58:20
  Speaker 1: of the lines around him. The half torn body of
• 3:58:23
  Speaker 1: the Parsi was seen, his sable raiment frayed to shreds.
• 3:58:28
  Speaker 1: His distended eyes turned full upon Old Ahab. The harpoon
• 3:58:34
  Speaker 1: dropped from his hand. Be fooled, befooled, drawing in a long,
• 3:58:40
  Speaker 1: lean breath, I Parsi, I see thee again, ay an
• 3:58:46
  Speaker 1: thou goest before. And this, this then is the hearse
• 3:58:51
  Speaker 1: that thou didst promise. But I hold thee to the
• 3:58:54
  Speaker 1: last letter of thy word. Where is the second hearse? Away?
• 3:58:59
  Speaker 1: Mates to the ship up Those boats are useless. Now
• 3:59:02
  Speaker 1: repair them if ye can in time and return to me.
• 3:59:06
  Speaker 1: If not Ahab is enough to die down men the
• 3:59:10
  Speaker 1: first thing, but offers to jump from this boat. I
• 3:59:13
  Speaker 1: stand in that thing. I harpoon. Ye are not other
• 3:59:17
  Speaker 1: men but my arms and legs, And so obey me.
• 3:59:21
  Speaker 1: Where's the whale gone down? Again? But he looked too
• 3:59:26
  Speaker 1: nigh the boat, for as if bent upon escaping with
• 3:59:29
  Speaker 1: the corpse he bore, and as if the particular place
• 3:59:32
  Speaker 1: of the last encounter had been a stage in his
• 3:59:35
  Speaker 1: lwured voyage. Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming forward,
• 3:59:40
  Speaker 1: and had almost passed the ship, which thus far had
• 3:59:43
  Speaker 1: been sailing in the contrary direction to him, though for
• 3:59:46
  Speaker 1: the present her headway had been stopped. He seemed swimming
• 3:59:50
  Speaker 1: with his utmost velocity, and now only intent upon pursuing
• 3:59:54
  Speaker 1: his own straight path in the sea. Oh, Ahab, cried Starbuck.
• 4:00:00
  Speaker 1: Not too late is it even now the third day
• 4:00:02
  Speaker 1: to desist? See moby Dick seeks thee. Not it is
• 4:00:07
  Speaker 1: thou thou that madly seekest him. Setting sail to the
• 4:00:12
  Speaker 1: rising wind, the lonely boat was swiftly impelled to lward
• 4:00:16
  Speaker 1: by both oars and canvas, and at last, when Ahab
• 4:00:20
  Speaker 1: was sliding by the vessel so near as to plainly
• 4:00:23
  Speaker 1: distinguished Starbuck's face. As he leaned over the rail, he
• 4:00:26
  Speaker 1: hailed him to turn the vessel about and follow him,
• 4:00:30
  Speaker 1: not too swiftly. At a judicious interval, glancing upward, he
• 4:00:34
  Speaker 1: saw Tashtego, Queekwag and Dagoo eagerly mounting to the three
• 4:00:39
  Speaker 1: mast heads, while the oarsmen were rocking in the two
• 4:00:42
  Speaker 1: staved boats, which had but just been hoisted to the side,
• 4:00:46
  Speaker 1: and were busily at work in repairing them one after
• 4:00:49
  Speaker 1: the other. Through the portholes. As he sped, he also
• 4:00:53
  Speaker 1: caught flying glimpses of stub and Flask busying themselves on
• 4:00:57
  Speaker 1: deck among bundles of new irons and lances. As he
• 4:01:01
  Speaker 1: saw all this, as he heard the hammers in the
• 4:01:03
  Speaker 1: broken boats, far other hammers seemed driving a nail into
• 4:01:08
  Speaker 1: his heart, but he rallied, and, now marking that the
• 4:01:12
  Speaker 1: vane or flag was gone from the main masthead, he
• 4:01:16
  Speaker 1: shouted to tash Tago, who had just gained that perch,
• 4:01:19
  Speaker 1: to descend again for another flag and a hammer and nails,
• 4:01:23
  Speaker 1: and so nail it to the mast. Whether fagged by
• 4:01:27
  Speaker 1: the three days running chase and the resistance to his
• 4:01:30
  Speaker 1: swimming in the knotted hamper he bore, or whether it
• 4:01:33
  Speaker 1: was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him, whichever was true,
• 4:01:38
  Speaker 1: The white whale's way now began to abate, as it
• 4:01:41
  Speaker 1: seemed from the boat, so rapidly nearing him once more,
• 4:01:45
  Speaker 1: though indeed the whale's last start had not been so
• 4:01:47
  Speaker 1: long a one as before. And still as Ahab glided
• 4:01:51
  Speaker 1: over the waves, the unpitying sharks accompanied him, and so
• 4:01:55
  Speaker 1: pertinaciously stuck to the boat, and so continually bit at
• 4:01:59
  Speaker 1: the plying oars that the blades became jagged and crunched,
• 4:02:03
  Speaker 1: and left small splinters in the sea at almost every dip,
• 4:02:08
  Speaker 1: heed them, not thow's teeth, but give new rowlocks to
• 4:02:12
  Speaker 1: your oars. Pull on. 'tis the better rest the shark's
• 4:02:17
  Speaker 1: jaw than the yielding water. But at every bite, sir,
• 4:02:20
  Speaker 1: the thin blades grow smaller and smaller. They will last
• 4:02:24
  Speaker 1: long enough. Pull on. But who can tell, he muttered,
• 4:02:29
  Speaker 1: whether these sharks swim to feast on the whale or
• 4:02:32
  Speaker 1: on Ahab. But pull on, aye all alive. Now we
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 1: near him, the helm, take the helm, let me pass,
• 4:02:42
  Speaker 1: And so saying, two of the oarsmen helped him forward
• 4:02:45
  Speaker 1: to the bows of the still flying boat at length.
• 4:02:50
  Speaker 1: As the craft was cast to one side and ran
• 4:02:53
  Speaker 1: ranging along with the white whale's flank, he seemed strangely
• 4:02:56
  Speaker 1: oblivious of its advance, as the whale sometimes will, and
• 4:03:00
  Speaker 1: Ahab was fairly within the smoky mountain mist, which thrown
• 4:03:04
  Speaker 1: off from the whale's spout, curled round his great Monadna hump.
• 4:03:09
  Speaker 1: He was even thus close to him when his body
• 4:03:12
  Speaker 1: arched back and both arms lengthwise high lifted to the poise,
• 4:03:17
  Speaker 1: he darted his fierce iron and his far fiercer curse
• 4:03:21
  Speaker 1: into the hated whale. As both steel and curse sank
• 4:03:24
  Speaker 1: into the socket as if sucked into a morass, Moby
• 4:03:28
  Speaker 1: Dick's sideways writhed spasmodically rolled his nigh flank against the bow,
• 4:03:33
  Speaker 1: and without staving a hole in it, so suddenly canted
• 4:03:37
  Speaker 1: the boat over that had it not been for the
• 4:03:39
  Speaker 1: elevated part of the gunnel to which he then clung,
• 4:03:42
  Speaker 1: Ahab would once more have been tossed into the sea.
• 4:03:46
  Speaker 1: As it was. Three of the oarsmen, who foreknew not
• 4:03:49
  Speaker 1: the precise instant of the dart, and were therefore unprepared
• 4:03:52
  Speaker 1: for its effects. These were flung out but so fell
• 4:03:56
  Speaker 1: that in an instant two of them clutched the gunnel again, and,
• 4:04:00
  Speaker 1: rising to its level on a combing wave, hurled themselves
• 4:04:03
  Speaker 1: bodily inboard again, the third man helplessly dropping astern but
• 4:04:08
  Speaker 1: still afloat, and swimming almost simultaneously with a mighty volition
• 4:04:13
  Speaker 1: of ungraduated instantaneous swiftness, the white whale darted through the
• 4:04:18
  Speaker 1: weltering sea. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman
• 4:04:22
  Speaker 1: to take new turns with the line and hold it so,
• 4:04:26
  Speaker 1: and commanded the crew to turn round on their seats
• 4:04:29
  Speaker 1: and tow the boat up to the mark. The moment
• 4:04:32
  Speaker 1: the treacherous line felt that double strain and tug, it
• 4:04:35
  Speaker 1: snapped in the empty air. What breaks in me? Some
• 4:04:40
  Speaker 1: sinew Cracks' tis hole again? Oars oars burst in upon him.
• 4:04:49
  Speaker 1: Hearing the tremendous rush of the sea crashing boat, the
• 4:04:52
  Speaker 1: whale wheeled round to present his blank forehead at bay.
• 4:04:56
  Speaker 1: But in that evolution, catching sight of the nearing black
• 4:04:59
  Speaker 1: hull of the ship, seemingly seeing in it the source
• 4:05:03
  Speaker 1: of all his persecutions, bethinking it it may be a
• 4:05:07
  Speaker 1: larger and nobler foe. Of a sudden he bore down
• 4:05:11
  Speaker 1: upon its advancing prow, smiting his jaws amid fiery showers
• 4:05:15
  Speaker 1: of foam, Ahab staggered his hands smote his forehead. I
• 4:05:22
  Speaker 1: grow blind, hands stretch out before me that I may
• 4:05:26
  Speaker 1: yet grope my way? Is it night? The whale? The
• 4:05:32
  Speaker 1: ship cried the cringing oarsman, oars, oars slope downward to
• 4:05:38
  Speaker 1: thy depths. O see that ere it be forever too late?
• 4:05:42
  Speaker 1: Ahab may slide this last last time upon his mark.
• 4:05:46
  Speaker 1: I see the ship, the ship dash on, my men?
• 4:05:51
  Speaker 1: Will you not save my ship? But as the oarsmen
• 4:05:55
  Speaker 1: violently forced their boat through the sledgehammering seas the before
• 4:06:00
  Speaker 1: or whale smitten bow, ends of two planks burst through,
• 4:06:04
  Speaker 1: and in an instant, almost the temporarily disabled boat lay
• 4:06:07
  Speaker 1: nearly level with the waves, its half wading splashing crew
• 4:06:12
  Speaker 1: trying hard to stop the gap and bale out the
• 4:06:15
  Speaker 1: pouring water. Meantime for that one beholding instant, Tashtago's mast
• 4:06:21
  Speaker 1: head hammer remained suspended in his hand, and the red
• 4:06:24
  Speaker 1: flag half wrapping him as with the plaid, then streamed
• 4:06:28
  Speaker 1: itself straight out from him as his own forward flowing heart,
• 4:06:33
  Speaker 1: while starbuck and stubs standing upon the bowsprit beneath, caught
• 4:06:37
  Speaker 1: sight of the downcoming monster, just as soon as he
• 4:06:42
  Speaker 1: the whale, the whale. Uphelm, up helm, Oh all ye
• 4:06:47
  Speaker 1: sweet powers of air, Now hug me close. Let not
• 4:06:51
  Speaker 1: Starbuck die. If die he must in a woman's fainting fit.
• 4:06:55
  Speaker 1: Up Helm, I say, you, fools, the jaw, the jaw.
• 4:07:00
  Speaker 1: Is this the end of all my bursting prayers, all
• 4:07:03
  Speaker 1: my lifelong fidelities. Oh ahab ahab lo thy work, steady, helmsman, steady,
• 4:07:11
  Speaker 1: nay nay, up helm. Again he turns to meet us. Oh,
• 4:07:16
  Speaker 1: his unappeasable brow drives on toward one whose duty tells
• 4:07:20
  Speaker 1: him he cannot depart. My God, stand by me. Now
• 4:07:25
  Speaker 1: stand not by me, but stand under me. Whoever you
• 4:07:28
  Speaker 1: are that will now help Stub, for Stub too sticks
• 4:07:32
  Speaker 1: Here A grin at thee thou grinning whale. Whoever helped
• 4:07:36
  Speaker 1: Stub or kept Stub awake? But stubzone unwinking eye. And
• 4:07:41
  Speaker 1: now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattress that
• 4:07:44
  Speaker 1: is all too soft. Would it were stuffed with brushwood?
• 4:07:48
  Speaker 1: I grin at thee thou grinning whale. Look ye, sun,
• 4:07:52
  Speaker 1: moon and stars, I call ye assassins of as good
• 4:07:56
  Speaker 1: a fellow as ever spouted up his ghost. For all
• 4:08:00
  Speaker 1: I would yet wring glasses with ye, would you but
• 4:08:03
  Speaker 1: hand the cup? Oh oh, oh oh, how grinning whale,
• 4:08:09
  Speaker 1: But there'll be plenty of gulping soon. Why fly ye
• 4:08:13
  Speaker 1: not o ahab for me? Off shoes and jacket to it.
• 4:08:17
  Speaker 1: Let Stub die in his drawers, a most moldy and
• 4:08:21
  Speaker 1: over salted death. Though cherries, cherries, cherries, Oh flask for
• 4:08:27
  Speaker 1: one red cherry. Ere we die cherries. I only wish
• 4:08:32
  Speaker 1: that we were where they grow, Oh Stub. I hope
• 4:08:35
  Speaker 1: my poor mother's drawn my part pay ere this if not,
• 4:08:39
  Speaker 1: few coppers will now come to her, For the voyage
• 4:08:42
  Speaker 1: is up. From the ship's bows. Nearly all the seamen
• 4:08:47
  Speaker 1: now hung inactive hammers, bits of plank, lances, and harpoons
• 4:08:52
  Speaker 1: mechanically retained in their hands, just as they had darted
• 4:08:55
  Speaker 1: from their various employments, all their enchanted eyes intent on
• 4:09:00
  Speaker 1: the whale, which, from side to side, strangely vibrating his
• 4:09:04
  Speaker 1: predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading semicircular foam
• 4:09:09
  Speaker 1: before him as he rushed. Retribution. Swift vengeance, eternal malice
• 4:09:15
  Speaker 1: were in his whole aspect. In spite of all that
• 4:09:18
  Speaker 1: mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his
• 4:09:22
  Speaker 1: foreheads smote the ship's starboard bow till men and timbers reeled.
• 4:09:27
  Speaker 1: Some fell flat upon their faces, like dislodged trucks. The
• 4:09:32
  Speaker 1: heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull like necks.
• 4:09:36
  Speaker 1: Through the breach. They heard the waters pour as mountain
• 4:09:40
  Speaker 1: torrents down afflume the ship. The hearse the second hearse
• 4:09:48
  Speaker 1: cried Ahab from the boat its wood could only be American.
• 4:09:54
  Speaker 1: Diving beneath the settling ship, the whale ran, quivering along
• 4:09:57
  Speaker 1: its keel, but turning under water, swiftly shot to the
• 4:10:01
  Speaker 1: surface again, far off the other bow, but within a
• 4:10:04
  Speaker 1: few yards of Ahab's boat, where for a time he
• 4:10:08
  Speaker 1: lay quiescent, I turn my body from the sun. What
• 4:10:14
  Speaker 1: ho tash tago? Let me hear thy hammer, Oh ye,
• 4:10:19
  Speaker 1: three unsurrendered spires of mine, thou uncracked keel, and only
• 4:10:25
  Speaker 1: God bullied hull, thou firm deck and haughty helm and
• 4:10:29
  Speaker 1: pole pointed prow death, glorious ship, Must you then perish?
• 4:10:35
  Speaker 1: And without me am I cut off from the last
• 4:10:39
  Speaker 1: fond pride of meanest shipwrecked captains. Oh, lonely death, on
• 4:10:44
  Speaker 1: lonely life. Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies
• 4:10:49
  Speaker 1: in my topmost grief. Ho, Ho, from all your furthest
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  Speaker 1: bounds pour you now in you bowld billows of my
• 4:10:58
  Speaker 1: whole foregone life. And top this one piled comber of
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 1: my death. Towards the eye, roll thou, all destroying but
• 4:11:08
  Speaker 1: unconquering whale to the last. I grapple with THEE from
• 4:11:13
  Speaker 1: hell's heart. I stab at THEE for hate's sake. I
• 4:11:17
  Speaker 1: spit my last breath at THEE. Sink all coffins and
• 4:11:22
  Speaker 1: all hearses to one common pool. And since neither can
• 4:11:26
  Speaker 1: be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still
• 4:11:30
  Speaker 1: chasing THEE. Though tied to THEE, Thou damned whale. Thus
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 1: I give up the spear. The harpoon was darted. The
• 4:11:40
  Speaker 1: stricken whale flew forward with igniting velocity. The line ran
• 4:11:44
  Speaker 1: through the grooves, ran foul. Ahab stooped to clear it.
• 4:11:49
  Speaker 1: He did clear it, but the flying turn caught him
• 4:11:52
  Speaker 1: round the neck, and voicelessly, as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim,
• 4:11:57
  Speaker 1: he was shot out of the boat crew knew he
• 4:12:01
  Speaker 1: was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye splice in the
• 4:12:05
  Speaker 1: rope's final end flew out of the stark empty tub,
• 4:12:09
  Speaker 1: knocked down an oarsman, and smiting. The sea disappeared in
• 4:12:13
  Speaker 1: its depths for an instant. The tranced boat's crew stood still,
• 4:12:19
  Speaker 1: then turned the ship, Great God, where is the ship?
• 4:12:25
  Speaker 1: Soon they, through dim, bewildering mediums, saw her sidelong, fading
• 4:12:30
  Speaker 1: phantom as in the gaseous Fata Morgana, only the uppermost
• 4:12:35
  Speaker 1: masts out of the water, while fixed by infatuation or
• 4:12:39
  Speaker 1: fidelity or fate to their once lofty perches, the pagan
• 4:12:43
  Speaker 1: harpeneers still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea, and
• 4:12:48
  Speaker 1: now concentric circle seized the lone boat itself and all
• 4:12:52
  Speaker 1: the crew, and each floating oar, and every lance pole
• 4:12:57
  Speaker 1: and spinning animate and inanimate, all round and round. In
• 4:13:01
  Speaker 1: one vortex carried the smallest chip of the peaquad out
• 4:13:05
  Speaker 1: of sight, but as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves
• 4:13:11
  Speaker 1: over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast,
• 4:13:14
  Speaker 1: leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible,
• 4:13:18
  Speaker 1: together with long streaming yards of the flag which calmly
• 4:13:22
  Speaker 1: undulated with ironical coincidings over the destroying billows they almost touched.
• 4:13:29
  Speaker 1: At that instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered
• 4:13:33
  Speaker 1: backwardly uplifted in the open air in the act of
• 4:13:36
  Speaker 1: nailing the flag, faster and yet faster to the subsiding
• 4:13:40
  Speaker 1: spar a skyhawk that tauntingly had followed the main truck
• 4:13:44
  Speaker 1: downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at
• 4:13:48
  Speaker 1: the flag and incommoding tash tago there this bird now
• 4:13:53
  Speaker 1: chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the hammer
• 4:13:57
  Speaker 1: and the wood, and simultaneously, feeling that ethereal thrill, the
• 4:14:02
  Speaker 1: submerged savage beneath in his death grasp, kept his hammer
• 4:14:06
  Speaker 1: frozen there. And so the Bird of Heaven, with archangelic
• 4:14:11
  Speaker 1: shrieks and his imperial beak thrust upward, and his whole
• 4:14:15
  Speaker 1: captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down
• 4:14:19
  Speaker 1: with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to
• 4:14:23
  Speaker 1: hell till she had dragged a living part of Heaven
• 4:14:26
  Speaker 1: along with her and helmeted herself with it. Now, small
• 4:14:32
  Speaker 1: fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf, a sullen
• 4:14:36
  Speaker 1: white surf beat against its steep sides. Then all collapsed,
• 4:14:42
  Speaker 1: and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as
• 4:14:46
  Speaker 1: it rolled five thousand years ago epilogue, And I only
• 4:14:54
  Speaker 1: am escaped alone to tell thee job the drama's done?
• 4:15:02
  Speaker 1: Why then here does anyone step forth? Because one did
• 4:15:06
  Speaker 1: survive the wreck? It so chanced that after the Parsi's disappearance,
• 4:15:12
  Speaker 1: I was he whom the fates ordained to take the
• 4:15:15
  Speaker 1: place of Ahab's bowsman when that bowsman assumed the vacant post.
• 4:15:20
  Speaker 1: The same who, when on the last day the three
• 4:15:23
  Speaker 1: men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was
• 4:15:26
  Speaker 1: dropped astern, so floating on the margin of the ensuing
• 4:15:30
  Speaker 1: scene and in full sight of it. When the half
• 4:15:33
  Speaker 1: spent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was
• 4:15:37
  Speaker 1: then but slowly drawn towards the closing vortex. When I
• 4:15:41
  Speaker 1: reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool, round
• 4:15:45
  Speaker 1: and round, then and ever, contracting towards the button like
• 4:15:49
  Speaker 1: black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle.
• 4:15:53
  Speaker 1: Like another excion, did I revolve till gaining that vital center.
• 4:15:58
  Speaker 1: The black bubble upward burst and now liberated by reason
• 4:16:03
  Speaker 1: of its cunning spring, and owing to its great buoyancy,
• 4:16:07
  Speaker 1: rising with great force, the coffin life boy shot lengthwise
• 4:16:11
  Speaker 1: from the sea, fell over and floated by my side,
• 4:16:16
  Speaker 1: buoyed up by that coffin. For almost one whole day
• 4:16:20
  Speaker 1: and night, I floated on a soft and dirge like Maine.
• 4:16:25
  Speaker 1: The unharming sharks they glided by as if with padlocks
• 4:16:28
  Speaker 1: on their mouths. The savage sea hawks sailed with sheathed beaks.
• 4:16:34
  Speaker 1: On the second day, a sail drew nearer, nearer, and
• 4:16:38
  Speaker 1: picked me up at last. It was the devious cruising
• 4:16:41
  Speaker 1: Rachel that, in her retracing search after her missing children,
• 4:16:46
  Speaker 1: only found another orphan the end