Tara Lynn

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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"...because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather round the moored carcase, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning." -Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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"We find some book naturalists- Olassen and Povelsen- declaring the Sperm Whale not only to be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood." "Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the Milky Way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors;" - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can." - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick