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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 46m

No murmur, no impatience, no petulance did come from him.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2h

his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6h

your whales must be seen before they can be killed

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8h

mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10h

Moby Dick seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14h

whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18h

these wild fishermen do not, as a general thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray the current expenses of the war

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20h

almost hidden in a discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22h

conscience is the wound, and there’s naught to staunch it

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

my means are sane, my motive and my object mad

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

There’s hogsheads of sperm ahead

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the noon-day air

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Groan nor laugh should be heard before a wreck.

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