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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23m

all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2h

It was a queer sort of place

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6h

sleights of hand and countless subtleties

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8h

whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10h

the body showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14h

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18h

under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20h

herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22h

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

they all glowed

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

not the most exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

the proper time comes

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as that.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

the measureless crush and crash of the sperm whale's ponderous flukes

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Could annihilation occur to matter, this were the thing to do it.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Wish, by gor! whale eat him, ’stead of him eat whale. I’m bressed if he ain’t more of shark dan Massa Shark hisself

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

the three boats lay there on that gently rolling sea, gazing down into its eternal blue noon

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently buried

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