melville mischief

INT. AN EMERGENCY ROOM

EVERYONE IS HERE AND SAYING THEIR FAVORITE SENTENCE OR RANDOM SEGMENT OF MOBY DICK.
WHO CARES WHY.

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               Mark, how when sailors in a dead calm bathe in the open sea- mark how closely they hug their ship and only coast along her sides

                              2COOL4U69
               Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience

                              agata
               Like most sea-terms, this one is very happy and significant

                              AM Gems
               Don't you know you might have killed that chap

                              andannabegins
               It is furnished with a small rope called a warp, of considerable length, by which it can be hauled back to the hand after darting

                              Andrew
               It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures

                              Andy Smith
               For God's sake, run for the doctor, some one, while I pry it open

                              AndyKneis
               True, both his eyes, in themselves, must simultaneously act; but is his brain so much more comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man's, that he can at the same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction

                              Anthony Scontrino
               There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause:- through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If

                              Asteck
               But though his whole life was now become one watch on deck; and though the Parsee's mystic watch was without intermission as his own; yet these two never seemed to speak- one man to the other- unless at long intervals some passing unmomentous matter made it necessary

                              BachelorRecExec
               God goes 'mong the worlds blackberrying

                              BeingAllFishies
               A few minutes more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form

                              Ben K
               For the peculiar snow-white brow of Moby Dick, and his snow-white hump, could not but be unmistakable

                              bigicecream
               My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematization of cetology

                              Bozos of Basketball
               This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er enjoy

                              Brett Morris
               Yes, I'm for it;" and so saying he started for the quarter-deck

                              Bruce Reid Robinson II
               For at that time, and indeed until a comparatively late day, the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber itself, a problem to the learned

                              BuckinKaeding
               In a strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales

                              burdrulz
               Granting other whales to be in sight, the fisherman will seldom give chase to one of these Grand Turks; for these Grand Turks are too lavish of their strength, and hence their unctuousness is small

                              Chad
               Instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal; all its loathsome virtue being annihilated, so that the before magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle

                              Chanson
               If you unload his skull of its spermy heaps and then take a rear view of its rear end, which is the high end, you will be struck by its resemblance to the human skull, beheld in the same situation, and from the same point of view

                              Clem Dawg
               Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object- that final and romantic object, too many would have turned from in disgust

                              clyde
               But this did by no means prevent all communications

                              Cody Skully
               Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated; oftener the boat's bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, on which the headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body

                              Common Sence
               What at last will Mexico be to the United States

                              CORPSEFUCKER SHITLORD
               No more White Whales for me; I've lowered for him once, and that has satisfied me

                              Dan Engler
               The consequence is, that upon breaking into the hold, and unloading one of these whale cemeteries, in the Greenland dock, a savor is given forth somewhat similar to that arising from excavating an old city graveyard, for the foundations of a Lying-in Hospital

                              David Galehouse
               So, it being calm weather, they broke out deeper and deeper, disturbing the slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and from that black midnight sending those gigantic moles into the daylight above

                              dexdexter
               Are these last throwing out oblique hints touching Tophet

                              Dr_Balls
               see the suds he makes

                              DrBlueJeanns
               While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow, till it almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead

                              Dubdub74
               What precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to say

                              earpanther
               As for the residue of the Pequod's company, be it said, that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are

                              Erika Thompson
               As for the sons and daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must take care of themselves; at least, with only the maternal help

                              EvanMD
               But ploughed up to the primary rock of the matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has but two props to stand on

                              EverybodyLovesFrozenDrPepper
               Then all in one welded commotion came an invisible push from astern, while forward the boat seemed striking on a ledge; the sail collapsed and exploded; a gush of scalding vapor shot up near by; something rolled and tumbled like an earthquake beneath us

                              failedbits
               Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped

                              Fatty2Dicks
               Nor can any son of mortal woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies, and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones to quiver in him like a shaken jelly

                              Freja
               For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with piglead in bulk

                              Gabe Danon
               For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St

                              Game of Scones
               Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then jerked the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what seemed a peculiarly ferocious shark- he was provided with still another protection

                              GayHammer
               The profoundest slumber slept upon him

                              Ged
               Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea

                              Geordie McGrath
               Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance

                              Gnarly Riff Dude
               The reason why you don't see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries it coiled away in his pocket, I guess

                              GoofusOmega
               The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint

                              GoofyMaleTwerk
               So that for an hour or more, a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of vitality in him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert carries a surplus supply of drink for future use in its four supplementary stomachs

                              greggy
               Aye, aye," cried Queequeg, and seizing the carpenter's heavy hatchet, he leaned out of a porthole, and steel to iron, began slashing at the largest fluke-chains

                              Haggplant Parmesialex
               in the same spot where it sank, once more it slowly rose

                              Hayzie Bone
               This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er enjoy

                              HipsterNonsense
               Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed

                              honlads
               In that way, mostly, the disastrous encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded

                              Hot - Slunch
               The crotch alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention

                              Hunter
               They must lead somewhere- to something else than common land, more palmy than the palms

                              Iclubsodas_over_thehead
               And now marking that the vane or flag was gone from the main-mast-head, he shouted to Tashtego, who had just gained that perch, to descend again for another flag, and a hammer and nails, and so nail it to the mast

                              Inner G'
               After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer

                              Jacob C
               As it passes through the remaining vertebrae the canal tapers in size, but for a considerable distance remains of large capacity

                              Jake Fogelnest
               The Virgin be blessed, a row

                              Jeff Ullrich
               My sensations were strange

                              JeffreyParties
               how valiantly I seek to drive out of others' hearts what's clinched so fast in mine

                              Joe King
               But in order to insure the speediest end to the voyage, they all agreed to another thing- namely, not to sing out for whales, in case any should be discovered

                              Joe Lerini
               He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way

                              Joe McGurl
               To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin

                              Jon Onyx
               If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object

                              josharminio
               The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held

                              Juan Swarlos
               His Mark   As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that craft, unless they previously produced their papers

                              jughead
               But war is pain, and hate is woe

                              July Diaz
               In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore

                              klem_johansen
               You, young man, avast there

                              Kyle O'Keefe
               Yes, the long calm was departing

                              lets kiss bro
               this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye

                              Luke HENDERSON!
               Hecla in a snowstorm- "landlord, stop whittling

                              Lyndon Johnson
               The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth

                              Mart J
               On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like that worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat

                              master_blaster
               to think of the green navies and the green-skulled crews

                              MattCameron
               If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once savage harbors, let them fire salutes to the honor and glory of the whale-ship, which originally showed them the way, and first interpreted between them and the savages

                              Mean Detective
               But his wild screams were answered by others quite as wild

                              Michael Bay of Pigs
               So that, in real truth, the mates and harpooneers of the Pequod might more properly be said to have lived out of the cabin than in it

                              mwn
               I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are

                              Newbie by Nature
               This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown

                              newtman98
               Stand up- stand up, and stay so

                              Not Erik
               Seizing the boat-knife, he critically reached within- through- and then, without- the rays of steel; dragged in the line beyond, passed it, inboard, to the bowsman, and then, twice sundering the rope near the chocks- dropped the intercepted fagot of steel into the sea; and was all fast again

                              Not_Your_Mothers_Dick_Jokes
               There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper

                              OcterDoctopus
               Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark

                              Papa John Leguizamo
               Nor have I been at all sparing of historical whale research, when it has seemed needed

                              ParappaTheRaptor
               Moreover, the ship's forge was ordered to be hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the hold; and, to accelerate the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at once to the forging of whatever iron contrivances might be needed

                              PatSmear
               Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter was at once commanded to do Queequeg's bidding, whatever it might include

                              PintMeef
               Then going through some small strange motions with it- whether indispensable to the magnetizing of the steel, or merely intended to augment the awe of the crew, is uncertain- he called for linen thread; and moving to the binnacle, slipped out the two reversed needles there, and horizontally suspended the sail-needle by its middle, over one of the compass cards

                              Poika
               The Crotch   Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs

                              prestonsinfield
               One of the men selected for shipkeepers- that is, those not appointed to the boats, by this time relieved the Indian at the main-mast head

                              ratpack
               While the ears of the former has an external opening, that of the latter is entirely and evenly covered over with a membrane, so as to be quite imperceptible from without

                              raxozellet
               Bear with me if I seem to press

                              Robert Goodwin
               But at length we perceived that by one of the unimaginable accidents of the fishery, this whale had become entangled in the harpoon-line that he towed; he had also run away with the cutting-spade in him; and while the free end of the rope attached to that weapon, had permanently caught in the coils of the harpoon-line round his tail, the cutting-spade itself had worked loose from his flesh

                              rygel
               Let me board you a moment- I come in peace

                              SaladJesseRapheal
               I am old;- shake hands with me, man

                              Sam.
               At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first to perceive the whale's intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite

                              sarah
               Truth hath no confines

                              Scoops
               Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left

                              ScotchBingington
               As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided

                              Sean Paul Giamatti
               Oh, take medicine, take medicine

                              showshowbro
               The bread- but that couldn't be helped; besides, it was an anti-scorbutic, in short, the bread contained the only fresh fare they had

                              skizelo
               Besides, it was very convenient on an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs which are convertible into walking sticks; upon occasion, a chief calling his attendant, and desiring him to make a settee of himself under a spreading tree, perhaps in some damp marshy place

                              slaterboi
               The ear has no external leaf whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so wondrously minute is it

                              Sly Sanders
               Here is a vital point; for you must either satisfactorily settle this matter with yourself, or for ever remain an infidel as to one of the most appalling, but not the less true events, perhaps anywhere to be found in all recorded history

                              Somebody
               Oh, yes, that every one knows a'most- I mean they know he's only one leg; and that a parmacetti took the other off

                              Spenny and the Jets
               New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels, were finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out, chased and killed by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their anchors with that express object as much in view, as in setting out through the Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it in his mind to capture that notorious murderous savage Annawon, the headmost warrior of the Indian King Philip

                              strit johnson
               I do so now touching the Black Fish, so called because blackness is the rule among almost all whales

                              Sydney Bristow
               If you pry it up, so as to get it overhead, and expose its rows of teeth, it seems a terrific portcullis; and such, alas

                              takehomejoke
               The crew, man, the crew

                              tartan
               But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him

                              The Narnold
               see yonder Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn- living, breathing pictures painted by the sun

                              TheClassyHobo
               And there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the successive monarchs of the East- if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as all Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the Isles of the sea combined

                              TheloniousJunk
               Bear that in mind, and don't jump any more

                              TheRealUncool
               At any rate, when you watch those live crabs that nestle here on this bonnet, such an idea will be almost sure to occur to you; unless, indeed, your fancy has been fixed by the technical term "crown" also bestowed upon it; in which case you will take great interest in thinking how this mighty monster is actually a diademed king of the sea, whose green crown has been put together for him in this marvellous manner

                              thinkofthechildren
               It is a quiet noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific; a French whaler anchored, inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board; the loosened sails of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background, both drooping together in the breezeless air

                              tim atkin
               For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby Dick

                              Tim Treese
               Hardly had he done so, when he was surrounded by the three junior mates and the four harpooneers, who all crowded him to the deck

                              toby keith sweat
               And in this way the two went once slowly round the windlass; when, resolved at last no longer to retreat, bethinking him that he had now forborne as much as comported with his humor, the Lakeman paused on the hatches and thus spoke to the officer:  "'Mr

                              TyMarciniakk
               Flask," follows after his predecessors

                              Valerie Bryant
               all graze: unceasing touch and go

                              Whatupwhatdown
               They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound

OKAY.