{"asin":"B004TRXX7C","title":"Moby Dick: or, the White Whale","authors":"Herman Melville","highlights":[{"text":"They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=18","value":18},"note":null},{"text":"It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=37","value":37},"note":null},{"text":"I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=39","value":39},"note":"Anadiplosis"},{"text":"I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=42","value":42},"note":null},{"text":"It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=43","value":43},"note":null},{"text":"The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=52","value":52},"note":null},{"text":"Who ain't a slave? Tell me that.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=55","value":55},"note":null},{"text":"And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,— what will compare with it?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=60","value":60},"note":null},{"text":"In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=66","value":66},"note":null},{"text":"\"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.                  \"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.\"                  \"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=71","value":71},"note":null},{"text":"His greatest admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him. But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=444","value":444},"note":null},{"text":"We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=446","value":446},"note":"Preterition"},{"text":"Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=487","value":487},"note":null},{"text":"But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=526","value":526},"note":null},{"text":"a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=530","value":530},"note":null},{"text":"Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=532","value":532},"note":"Plato"},{"text":"In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=533","value":533},"note":null},{"text":"come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=534","value":534},"note":null},{"text":"He would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at number one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty, and it was only by such a large number of fifties being found together, that his astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=716","value":716},"note":null},{"text":"Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is— which was the only way he could get there—thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=733","value":733},"note":null},{"text":"that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=860","value":860},"note":null},{"text":"\"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=895","value":895},"note":null},{"text":"Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1380","value":1380},"note":null},{"text":"But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1399","value":1399},"note":null},{"text":"that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1520","value":1520},"note":null},{"text":"And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head. For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1538","value":1538},"note":null},{"text":"Why did the Dutch in De Witt's time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis XVI of France, at his own personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely invite to that town some score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of 1,000,000 pounds?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1543","value":1543},"note":null},{"text":"sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; yearly consuming 00824,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth, at the time of sailing, 20,000,000 dollars; and every year importing into our harbors a well reaped harvest of 00847,000,000 dollars.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1547","value":1547},"note":null},{"text":"Often, adventures which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy of being set down in the ship's common log.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1561","value":1561},"note":null},{"text":"The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1567","value":1567},"note":null},{"text":"double-bolted land, Japan,","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1571","value":1571},"note":null},{"text":"The whale never figured in any grand imposing way? In one of the mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the world's capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.*","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1582","value":1582},"note":null},{"text":"Grant it, since you cite it; but say what you will, there is no real dignity in whaling.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1585","value":1585},"note":"Prolepsis"},{"text":"hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1590","value":1590},"note":null},{"text":"like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates. Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1611","value":1611},"note":null},{"text":"an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1621","value":1621},"note":null},{"text":"courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1624","value":1624},"note":null},{"text":"That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Himself!","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1639","value":1639},"note":null},{"text":"Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1657","value":1657},"note":null},{"text":"For, like his nose, his short, black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1662","value":1662},"note":null},{"text":"As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided. Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1676","value":1676},"note":null},{"text":"Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1699","value":1699},"note":"Noble Savage and comparing POC to animals."},{"text":"Isolatoes too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1710","value":1710},"note":null},{"text":"He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1735","value":1735},"note":null},{"text":"like Cellini's cast Perseus.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1737","value":1737},"note":null},{"text":"Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded. Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1737","value":1737},"note":null},{"text":"Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth—So","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1809","value":1809},"note":null},{"text":"In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale. How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized? For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1817","value":1817},"note":null},{"text":"The classification of the constituents of a chaos,","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1860","value":1860},"note":null},{"text":"\"Unfitness to pursue our research in the unfathomable waters.\" \"Impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the cetacea.\" \"A field strewn with thorns.\" \"All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1863","value":1863},"note":null},{"text":"As yet, however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1883","value":1883},"note":null},{"text":"promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1886","value":1886},"note":null},{"text":"My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematization of cetology. I am the architect, not the builder.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1888","value":1888},"note":null},{"text":"to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1890","value":1890},"note":null},{"text":"I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=1913","value":1913},"note":null},{"text":"With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whaleships' standing orders, \"Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2260","value":2260},"note":null},{"text":"Beware of such an one, I say: your whales must be seen before they can be killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer. Nor are these monitions at all unneeded. For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the corking care of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2264","value":2264},"note":null},{"text":"Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient \"interest\" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise. But all in vain; those young Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect; they are short-sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have left their opera-glasses at home.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2269","value":2269},"note":null},{"text":"Over Descartian vortices you hover.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2282","value":2282},"note":null},{"text":"\"Vengeance on a dumb brute!\" cried Starbuck, \"that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2343","value":2343},"note":null},{"text":"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2344","value":2344},"note":null},{"text":"That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2348","value":2348},"note":null},{"text":"I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2349","value":2349},"note":null},{"text":"There are men from whom warm words are small indignity.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2352","value":2352},"note":null},{"text":"Yet not so much predictions from without, as verifications of the fore-going things within.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2364","value":2364},"note":null},{"text":"he brimmed the harpoon sockets with the fiery waters from the pewter.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2388","value":2388},"note":null},{"text":"'Tis split, too—that I feel; the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2399","value":2399},"note":null},{"text":"all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er enjoy. Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most subtly and most malignantly! damned in the midst of Paradise!","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2401","value":2401},"note":null},{"text":"I thought to find one stubborn, at the least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they revolve.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2403","value":2403},"note":null},{"text":"Or, if you will, like so many ant-hills of powder, they all stand before me; and I their match. Oh, hard! that to fire others, the match itself must needs be wasting!","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2404","value":2404},"note":null},{"text":"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2411","value":2411},"note":null},{"text":"His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2598","value":2598},"note":null},{"text":"Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2602","value":2602},"note":null},{"text":"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2607","value":2607},"note":null},{"text":"his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2615","value":2615},"note":null},{"text":"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2622","value":2622},"note":null},{"text":"But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished. That before living agent, now became the living instrument. If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2624","value":2624},"note":null},{"text":"all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2635","value":2635},"note":null},{"text":"The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2656","value":2656},"note":null},{"text":"this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2669","value":2669},"note":"Yikes"},{"text":"that the irresponsible ferociousness of the creature stands invested in the fleece of celestial innocence and love; and hence, by bringing together two such opposite emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us with so unnatural a contrast.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2689","value":2689},"note":null},{"text":"I cannot tell, can only hint, the things that darted through me then.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2703","value":2703},"note":null},{"text":"Coleridge's wild Rhyme","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2706","value":2706},"note":null},{"text":"He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2715","value":2715},"note":null},{"text":"How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2731","value":2731},"note":null},{"text":"But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2742","value":2742},"note":null},{"text":"Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide field of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop (like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;—","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2756","value":2756},"note":null},{"text":"Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery, views what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2774","value":2774},"note":null},{"text":"But thou sayest, methinks this white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2777","value":2777},"note":null},{"text":"Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2786","value":2786},"note":null},{"text":"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?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2791","value":2791},"note":null},{"text":"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; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows—a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2792","value":2792},"note":null},{"text":"all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge—pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2796","value":2796},"note":null},{"text":"while he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2822","value":2822},"note":null},{"text":"For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2824","value":2824},"note":null},{"text":"Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans, it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet. But not so did it seem to Ahab, who knew the sets of all tides and currents; and thereby calculating the driftings of the sperm whale's food; and, also calling to mind the regular, ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular latitudes; could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching to certainties, concerning the timeliest day to be upon this or that ground in search of his prey.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2826","value":2826},"note":null},{"text":"mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2840","value":2840},"note":null},{"text":"if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2869","value":2869},"note":null},{"text":"Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on fire. Yet these, perhaps, instead of being the unsuppressable symptoms of some latent weakness, or fright at his own resolve, were but the plainest tokens of its intensity.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2879","value":2879},"note":null},{"text":"The latter was the eternal, living principle or soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated from the characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its outer vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the scorching contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it was no longer an integral. But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent being of its own. Nay, could grimly live and burn, while the common vitality to which it was conjoined, fled horror-stricken from the unbidden and unfathered birth.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2887","value":2887},"note":null},{"text":"Therefore, the tormented spirit that glared out of bodily eyes, when what seemed Ahab rushed from his room, was for the time but a vacated thing, a formless somnambulistic being, a ray of living light, to be sure, but without an object to color, and therefore a blankness in itself.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2892","value":2892},"note":null},{"text":"thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2894","value":2894},"note":null},{"text":"Rinaldo Rinaldini,","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2919","value":2919},"note":null},{"text":"King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross against the sky?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2927","value":2927},"note":null},{"text":"For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2934","value":2934},"note":"Melville talking about whether Moby Dick is an allegory."},{"text":"No: because the mails are very irregular between here and New Guinea. In fact, did you ever hear what might be called regular news direct or indirect from New Guinea? Yet I will tell you that upon one particular voyage which I made to the Pacific, among many others we spoke thirty different ships, every one of which had had a death by a whale, some of them more than one, and three that had each lost a boat's crew. For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2942","value":2942},"note":null},{"text":"But he was stopped on the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments' confidential business with him. That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair. I am not superstitious, but I consider the Commodore's interview with that whale as providential. Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright? I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=2966","value":2966},"note":null},{"text":"Procopius, a Christian magistrate of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and Belisarius general.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3005","value":3005},"note":null},{"text":"He knew, for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some respects was over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover the complete spiritual man any more than mere corporeal superiority involves intellectual mastership; for to the purely spiritual, the intellectual but stand in a sort of corporeal relation.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3029","value":3029},"note":null},{"text":"(for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action);","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3038","value":3038},"note":null},{"text":"For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable— they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness— and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3039","value":3039},"note":null},{"text":"This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3071","value":3071},"note":null},{"text":"Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance— aye, chance, free will, and necessity—no wise incompatible— all interweavingly working together. The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course— its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3072","value":3072},"note":null},{"text":"that the ball of free will dropped from my hand,","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3079","value":3079},"note":"Hilarious"},{"text":"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3253","value":3253},"note":null},{"text":"White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. \"Queequeg,\" said I, \"come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3277","value":3277},"note":null},{"text":"Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case may be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3280","value":3280},"note":null},{"text":"as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3361","value":3361},"note":null},{"text":"It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows. And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3450","value":3450},"note":null},{"text":"But what is a Gam? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster's ark does not hold it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3452","value":3452},"note":null},{"text":"An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3922","value":3922},"note":null},{"text":"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3978","value":3978},"note":null},{"text":"Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=3981","value":3981},"note":null},{"text":"By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons. 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All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest snakes sportively festooning their limbs.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=4056","value":4056},"note":null},{"text":"all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones to quiver in him like a shaken jelly.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=4060","value":4060},"note":null},{"text":"Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=4098","value":4098},"note":null},{"text":"O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=4496","value":4496},"note":"Emersonian"},{"text":"He was a small, short, youngish man, sprinkled all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant yellow hair. A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists. A deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=4515","value":4515},"note":null},{"text":"This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore-announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=4566","value":4566},"note":null},{"text":"And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm. Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5370","value":5370},"note":null},{"text":"showed like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5503","value":5503},"note":null},{"text":"When by chance these precious parts in a nursing whale are cut by the hunter's lance, the mother's pouring milk and blood rivallingly discolor the sea for rods. The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5612","value":5612},"note":null},{"text":"whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in this part, but not effectually, as it seemed, had broken away from the boat, carrying along with him half of the harpoon line; and in the extraordinary agony of the wound, he was now dashing among the revolving circles like the lone mounted desperado Arnold, at the battle of Saratoga, carrying dismay wherever he went.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5622","value":5622},"note":null},{"text":"They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striving for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their antlers.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5669","value":5669},"note":null},{"text":"Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5685","value":5685},"note":null},{"text":"The Forty-barrel-bull schools are larger than the harem schools. Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5693","value":5693},"note":null},{"text":"these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence; For notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has but two props to stand on.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5738","value":5738},"note":null},{"text":"What all men's minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish? What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5752","value":5752},"note":"Whaler's eye view of the world. Ishmael describes the world through a whalers eyes. All of it."},{"text":"\"It is his.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=5777","value":5777},"note":"Like \"I would prefer not to.\""},{"text":"Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side; the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=6012","value":6012},"note":null},{"text":"It is plums of rubies, in pictures of citron. Spite of reason, it is hard to keep yourself from eating it. I confess, that once I stole behind the foremast to try it. It tasted something as I should conceive a royal cutlet from the thigh of Louis le Gros might have tasted, supposing him to have been killed the first day after the venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an unusually fine vintage of the vineyards of Champagne.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=6023","value":6023},"note":null},{"text":"Nippers.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=6031","value":6031},"note":"From Bartelby the Scrivener"},{"text":"Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=6042","value":6042},"note":null},{"text":"Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage—and, foolish as I am, taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=6179","value":6179},"note":null},{"text":"And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=6188","value":6188},"note":null},{"text":"Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=6558","value":6558},"note":null},{"text":"indeed everything was filled with sperm, except the captain's pantaloons pockets, and those he reserved to thrust his hands into, in self-complacent testimony of his entire satisfaction.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=7067","value":7067},"note":null},{"text":"of all this fiery life of thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes!\" \"Aye,\" cried Stubb, \"but sea-coal ashes—mind ye that, Mr. Starbuck— sea-coal, not your common charcoal.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=7159","value":7159},"note":null},{"text":"The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=7360","value":7360},"note":null},{"text":"Some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds must empty into thee!\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=7516","value":7516},"note":null},{"text":"The wide tiers of welded tendons overspreading his broad white forehead, beneath the transparent skin, looked knitted together;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=8084","value":8084},"note":null},{"text":"\"The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil swimming in them.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=8253","value":8253},"note":null},{"text":"\"The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.\"","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004TRXX7C&location=8300","value":8300},"note":null}]}