Nor is It at All Prudent for The Hunter to be Over

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlCRCZsLxwH_YVBSGyy-7vy8b1gkVs68CUZ6XAoIEAqqI531Pa1cu2FQe2QH2q6_2ja8qgsYZ7kuNDS3uqq3oIKgT-bIKYTJ0UVo4MoiOdKHngeZwT2SPa6Dgz-ALU9Qx9YDTLgiN1vE8/s300/22+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #999999; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlCRCZsLxwH_YVBSGyy-7vy8b1gkVs68CUZ6XAoIEAqqI531Pa1cu2FQe2QH2q6_2ja8qgsYZ7kuNDS3uqq3oIKgT-bIKYTJ0UVo4MoiOdKHngeZwT2SPa6Dgz-ALU9Qx9YDTLgiN1vE8/s300/22+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it. And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm. Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it. Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you. The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is to let this deadly spout alone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish. My hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the Sperm Whale; I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores; all other whales sometimes are. He is both ponderous and profound. And I am convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there always goes up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep thoughts. While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head. The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above supposition.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCszUKs6NsTH9ib2BwRVtZl9JExum7k56GOOycBL1cyo6hzOYR9WaQUsEr0okhSwDnOrJCSjAyGXo6fwZtnzH3NDGxuYg4FmKmxljsIkxEqvdldDO4eqGq5F_YzPQtHcsNQHkIwYCm_o/s1600/410_133.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCszUKs6NsTH9ib2BwRVtZl9JExum7k56GOOycBL1cyo6hzOYR9WaQUsEr0okhSwDnOrJCSjAyGXo6fwZtnzH3NDGxuYg4FmKmxljsIkxEqvdldDO4eqGq5F_YzPQtHcsNQHkIwYCm_o/s320/410_133.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapour, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapour—as you will sometimes see it—glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts. For, d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapour. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.</span><br /><blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mZSsgqcf55orWnrHjrh8cTKnSVDiZvX_0Wmb7veq_EizArhl7jmLU_CjlussRk8w2iOGHYXsnuYZVJfocjdCT_7t2RCYq8yX43T0Tub6RrnIW_iu6ramTXAXi-Z7a7CIMENMdC-Ji9Ve/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</blockquote><ul id="test" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><li>Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout</li><li>It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face in it</li><li>You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away</li><li>For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it</li><li>And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm</li><li>Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it</li></ul><ol style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><li>For Tharks they were wildly enthusiastic, and before another half hour had passed twenty mounted messengers were speeding across dead sea bottoms to call the hordes together for the expedition</li><li>In three days we were on the march toward Zodanga, one hundred thousand strong, as Tars Tarkas had been able to enlist the services of three smaller hordes on the promise of the great loot of Zodanga</li><li>At the head of the column I rode beside the great Thark while at the heels of my mount trotted my beloved Woola</li><li>We traveled entirely by night, timing our marches so that we camped during the day at deserted cities where, even to the beasts, we were all kept indoors during the daylight hours</li></ol><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Example Heading 1</h1><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Example Heading 2</h2><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Example Heading 3</h3><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Example Heading 4</h4><h5 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Example Heading 5</h5><h6 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Example Heading 6</h6></div>

Nor is It at All Prudent for The Hunter to be Over

Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peer...

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But The Suddenly Started Pequod

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming—"Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!"</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"Then God keep thee, old man—see'st thou that"—pointing to the hammock—"I bury but one of five stout men, who were alive only yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only THAT one I bury; the rest were buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb." Then turning to his crew—"Are ye ready there? place the plank then on the rail, and lift the body; so, then—Oh! God"—advancing towards the hammock with uplifted hands—"may the resurrection and the life—"</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"Brace forward! Up helm!" cried Ahab like lightning to his men.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><br /></div><a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHKs6m7Xa3Qvm0jZnGIxYOwQUlTOBcQS-ZcBLRCChQr4_Io_8WUpUtYbOPLZ-NsMy7XE-Mmj6Sjx_VlE2jJG3z1RjLL_IwyuIUHhiWFgN3pp_bPR_tYJduzKvRstH5ti3wYH3KiJHOxSY/s1600/marcfolio-headphones02.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHKs6m7Xa3Qvm0jZnGIxYOwQUlTOBcQS-ZcBLRCChQr4_Io_8WUpUtYbOPLZ-NsMy7XE-Mmj6Sjx_VlE2jJG3z1RjLL_IwyuIUHhiWFgN3pp_bPR_tYJduzKvRstH5ti3wYH3KiJHOxSY/s320/marcfolio-headphones02.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea; not so quick, indeed, but that some of the flying bubbles might have sprinkled her hull with their ghostly baptism.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"Ha! yonder! look yonder, men!" cried a foreboding voice in her wake. "In vain, oh, ye strangers, ye fly our sad burial; ye but turn us your taffrail to show us your coffin!"</div></div>

But The Suddenly Started Pequod

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What is It That in The Albino Man so Peculiarly

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguz5PMt3bbWfY9DSkgdEKWnJqQbt1HmqE2VGVc-b2fdA_LDJUTSMDxSfzLkyNa3p1QFeDdkvSkeaIQL-OdtojVX2k6Ojc4xQ2uKew1Nuc-6JgNg8dK6UmurOdsvOo9iwMfkNy0_BNU2fw/s1600/24+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguz5PMt3bbWfY9DSkgdEKWnJqQbt1HmqE2VGVc-b2fdA_LDJUTSMDxSfzLkyNa3p1QFeDdkvSkeaIQL-OdtojVX2k6Ojc4xQ2uKew1Nuc-6JgNg8dK6UmurOdsvOo9iwMfkNy0_BNU2fw/s320/24+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea. At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck, with the ship's time and place; and then letting it escape. But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking, and adoring cherubim!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Most famous in our Western annals and test linkIndian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger, large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage. He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies. At their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads on the hosts of light. The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-browed and fearless as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.</div><a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYx7NXCyuR-fmUjp3vHT59czAMVoEW31owXNEKtEC9SF6xGInM7qVUf0ZfTcdxjkss91J-qqkFZqZVfN5Ho08Ouz-m0KK5Zj1BwrsOXZAIaU2MVqKTsJqs4su235mtjfIz7TopRleI2b4/s1600/7.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYx7NXCyuR-fmUjp3vHT59czAMVoEW31owXNEKtEC9SF6xGInM7qVUf0ZfTcdxjkss91J-qqkFZqZVfN5Ho08Ouz-m0KK5Zj1BwrsOXZAIaU2MVqKTsJqs4su235mtjfIz7TopRleI2b4/s1600/7.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and Albatross.</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mZSsgqcf55orWnrHjrh8cTKnSVDiZvX_0Wmb7veq_EizArhl7jmLU_CjlussRk8w2iOGHYXsnuYZVJfocjdCT_7t2RCYq8yX43T0Tub6RrnIW_iu6ramTXAXi-Z7a7CIMENMdC-Ji9Ve/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;">What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin! It is that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name he bears. The Albino is as well made as other men—has no substantive deformity—and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. Why should this be so?</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature link again with longer anchor text in her least palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible. From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary. How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue. It cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here. And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them. Nor even in our superstitions do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog—Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his pallid horse.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.</div></div>

What is It That in The Albino Man so Peculiarly

But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea....

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Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4I_CV_djS4Prau3taQVnumrtGhb0ik24pHBWhuXwrtQjW9TpHBSSXth8NCI0KatyXIyCo38Pm5fRuMs_stsX1NlWh0lW2JB5TF1sL1xKDknbtlM1xWqqWLOEp9g3aTEZjzlkcw_y2v8/s1600/32+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4I_CV_djS4Prau3taQVnumrtGhb0ik24pHBWhuXwrtQjW9TpHBSSXth8NCI0KatyXIyCo38Pm5fRuMs_stsX1NlWh0lW2JB5TF1sL1xKDknbtlM1xWqqWLOEp9g3aTEZjzlkcw_y2v8/s320/32+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="268" /></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.</div><a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTwoubpcUPOVcYSmMcc8jkJDlg7jQN0MJN-yhWYOatQ6N2EhAcRnLKyJvTOyWsZsIpd-UL3vTYtvx_QZ_gAffOn4RscaUpa6R8oG-dt0MzveIpPo55AvXf-VjmqbwDPqu09fW___O-dfM/s1600/19.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTwoubpcUPOVcYSmMcc8jkJDlg7jQN0MJN-yhWYOatQ6N2EhAcRnLKyJvTOyWsZsIpd-UL3vTYtvx_QZ_gAffOn4RscaUpa6R8oG-dt0MzveIpPo55AvXf-VjmqbwDPqu09fW___O-dfM/s1600/19.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask. "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know."</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mZSsgqcf55orWnrHjrh8cTKnSVDiZvX_0Wmb7veq_EizArhl7jmLU_CjlussRk8w2iOGHYXsnuYZVJfocjdCT_7t2RCYq8yX43T0Tub6RrnIW_iu6ramTXAXi-Z7a7CIMENMdC-Ji9Ve/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;">I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4I_CV_djS4Prau3taQVnumrtGhb0ik24pHBWhuXwrtQjW9TpHBSSXth8NCI0KatyXIyCo38Pm5fRuMs_stsX1NlWh0lW2JB5TF1sL1xKDknbtlM1xWqqWLOEp9g3aTEZjzlkcw_y2v8/s1600/32+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4I_CV_djS4Prau3taQVnumrtGhb0ik24pHBWhuXwrtQjW9TpHBSSXth8NCI0KatyXIyCo38Pm5fRuMs_stsX1NlWh0lW2JB5TF1sL1xKDknbtlM1xWqqWLOEp9g3aTEZjzlkcw_y2v8/s320/32+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="268" /></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.</div><a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTwoubpcUPOVcYSmMcc8jkJDlg7jQN0MJN-yhWYOatQ6N2EhAcRnLKyJvTOyWsZsIpd-UL3vTYtvx_QZ_gAffOn4RscaUpa6R8oG-dt0MzveIpPo55AvXf-VjmqbwDPqu09fW___O-dfM/s1600/19.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTwoubpcUPOVcYSmMcc8jkJDlg7jQN0MJN-yhWYOatQ6N2EhAcRnLKyJvTOyWsZsIpd-UL3vTYtvx_QZ_gAffOn4RscaUpa6R8oG-dt0MzveIpPo55AvXf-VjmqbwDPqu09fW___O-dfM/s1600/19.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">"I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask. "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know."</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mZSsgqcf55orWnrHjrh8cTKnSVDiZvX_0Wmb7veq_EizArhl7jmLU_CjlussRk8w2iOGHYXsnuYZVJfocjdCT_7t2RCYq8yX43T0Tub6RrnIW_iu6ramTXAXi-Z7a7CIMENMdC-Ji9Ve/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;">I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.</div></div>

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