"It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. [ . . .] For long...

"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them,...

"Already several fatalities had attended his chase. But though similar disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual...

"Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had...

"For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,- as the smitten tree gives birth...

"But those chaps there are worse yet- they are your white squalls, they. White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! [...] Oh! thou big...

"FRENCH SAILOR Merry-mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I jump through it! Split jibs! tear yourself! TASHTEGO (Quietly smoking) That’s a...

"The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and- Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. Now,...