The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"For the rest blame not Stubb too hardly. The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen...
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From The Castaway
- May 12, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to...
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From The Castaway
- May 11, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour Pip went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said...
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From The Castaway
- May 10, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practiced swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the...
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From The Castaway
- May 9, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb."
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From The Castaway
- May 8, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried traveller’s trunk."
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From The Castaway
- May 7, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still...
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From The Castaway
- May 6, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"And so the whale was lost and Pip was saved."
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From The Castaway
- May 5, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"But Pip loved life, and all life’s peaceable securities; so that the panic-striking business in which he had somehow unaccountably...
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From The Castaway
- May 4, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Poor Pip! ye have heard of him before; ye must remember his tambourine on that dramatic midnight, so gloomy-jolly."
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From Ambergris
- May 3, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odor."
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from The Fountain
- May 2, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a...
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From Ambergris
- May 1, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Forget not the strange fact that of all things of ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst."
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From Ambergris
- Apr 30, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct."
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From The Pequod meets the Rose-Bud
- Apr 29, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist."
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From The Pequod meets the Rose-Bud
- Apr 28, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"It’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled."
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From Heads or Tails
- Apr 27, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"But is the Queen a mermaid, to be presented with a tail? An allegorical meaning may lurk here."
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From Heads or Tails
- Apr 26, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"From the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of...
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From Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
- Apr 25, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a...
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Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
- Apr 21, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings from the Greatest Novel Ever
"A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it."
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