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Melville · 1851
Canon spine row 98. Melville — Moby-Dick. Era: 1851. Lang: English (US).
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What this book knows
Obsession with the unknowable consumes the self, and all who sail in its wake share the cost.
calling
Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? This Iron Crown of Lombardy... 'Tis iron—that I know—not gold. 'Tis split, too—that I feel.
MOBYD-RC-155The sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it.
MOBYD-RC-065Every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
MOBYD-RC-062mortality
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks.
MOBYD-RC-257faith-and-doubt
We agreed that he was nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear. But... Elijah following us, though at a distance.
MOBYD-RC-091When a person placed in command finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, he conceives an unconquerable dislike.
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