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“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”
— Oct 31, 2024 08:13AM
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Ahab to the Carpenter: “the gravedigger in the play sings, spade in hand. dost thou never?”
— Dec 18, 2024 09:53PM
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“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”
— Dec 15, 2024 09:42PM
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What would an epic tale be without an epic simile?
Here’s Ishmael attending to the shirt-cockin’ Queequeg on the dead whale’s back:
“You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ship’s steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his waist.”
— Dec 05, 2024 03:03PM
Here’s Ishmael attending to the shirt-cockin’ Queequeg on the dead whale’s back:
“You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ship’s steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his waist.”
Petergiaquinta
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“Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable.”
— Oct 19, 2024 07:09PM
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“It’s a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.”
— Oct 12, 2024 08:27PM
