The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"For there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
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From The Carpet-Bag
- Apr 8, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
'"Ha, Ishmael,' muttered I, backing out, 'Wretched entertainment at the sign of "The Trap!'"
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From The Tail
- Apr 6, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less...
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from The Fountain
- Apr 5, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"For all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions."
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from The Fountain
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"For do you see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor."
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from The Fountain
- Apr 2, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"But then again, what has the whale to say?"
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From The Honor and Glory of Whaling
- Apr 2, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnu! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whale-man's can head off like that?"
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From Jonah Historically Regarded
- Apr 1, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"It is not necessary that we consider Jonah as tombed in the whale's belly but as temporarily lodged in some part of his mouth. And this...
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From The Honor and Glory of Whaling
- Mar 31, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"Any man may kill a snake, but only a Perseus, a St. George, a Coffin, have the heart in them to march boldly up to a whale."
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From The Honor and Glory of Whaling
- Mar 29, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."
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From The Nut
- Mar 28, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world."
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From The Nut
- Mar 28, 2017
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul."
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