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Chapter CXXIII
“The Musket.”

“—But if I wake thee not to death, old man, who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbuck’s body this day week may sink, with all the crew! Great God, where art thou? Shall I? shall I!

“And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be now so long dissolved; then, why mahesh not thou, carpenter, feel the fiery pains of hell forever, and without a body? Hah!”

Chapter XCVI “The Try-Works”

“There is wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces…

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Chapter XCVI
One of my favorite chapters thus far, a masterful blend of elaborate metaphor and ponderance.

“And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?