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MelvilleFrame&BookReflected Cupola2
Melville's last known photographic image reflects in the low midday sun of January the great cupola of the...
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Uploaded on Jan 4, 2012
I Survived Moby Dick Marathon 2012
On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel,...
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Uploaded on Dec 13, 2011
...then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
...then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
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Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled. Some fell flat upon their faces. Like d
Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man...
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Hearing the tremendous rush of the sea-crashing boat, the whale wheeled round to present his blank forehead at bay; but in that evolution, catching sight of the nearing black hull of the ship; seemingly seeing in it the source of all his persecutions; bet
Hearing the tremendous rush of the sea-crashing boat, the whale wheeled round to present his blank forehead...
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At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its advance…
At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its advance…
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...Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming forward…
While Daggoo and Queequeg were stopping the strained planks; and as the whale swimming out from them, turned, and showed one entire flank as he shot by them again; at that moment a quick cry went up. Lashed round and round to the fish's back; pinioned in
While Daggoo and Queequeg were stopping the strained planks; and as the whale swimming out from them,...
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For when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be sure the first is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing - be that end what it may.
For when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be sure the first is the morning, the...
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Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.
Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.
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What's this? - green? aye, tiny mosses in these warped cracks. No such green weather stains on Ahab's head! There's the difference now between man's old age and matter's. But aye, old mast, we both grow old together; sound in our hulls, though, are we not
What's this? - green? aye, tiny mosses in these warped cracks. No such green weather stains on Ahab's head!...
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Aye, he's chasing me now; not I, him - that's bad…
...while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
...while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope...
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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man.
"Great God! but for one single instant show thyself," cried Starbuck; "never, never wilt thou capture him, old man - In Jesus' name no more of this, that's worse than devil's madness. Two days chased; twice stove to splinters; thy very leg once more snatc
"Great God! but for one single instant show thyself," cried Starbuck; "never, never wilt...
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