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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 47m

Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2h

floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

Once more the sermon proceeded.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6h

I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8h

If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10h

In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

get away from before the door

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14h

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18h

harder and harder, and deeper and deeper

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20h

Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22h

I will wreak that hate upon him.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

The harpoon was hurled.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Is the steward an apothecary, sir?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

my God! poor Tashtego

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

dive into this matter of whaling

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapory jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

the man’s a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants,—a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.

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