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But
in
the
cautious
comprehensiveness
and
unloitering
vigilance
with
which
Ahab
threw
his
brooding
soul
into
this
unfaltering
hunt
,
he
would
not
permit
himself
to
rest
all
his
hopes
upon
the
one
crowning
fact
above
mentioned
,
however
flattering
it
might
be
to
those
hopes
;
nor
in
the
sleeplessness
of
his
vow
could
he
so
tranquillize
his
unquiet
heart
as
to
postpone
all
intervening
quest
.
Now
,
the
Pequod
had
sailed
from
Nantucket
at
the
very
beginning
of
the
Season-on-the-Line
.
No
possible
endeavor
then
could
enable
her
commander
to
make
the
great
passage
southwards
,
double
Cape
Horn
,
and
then
running
down
sixty
degrees
of
latitude
arrive
in
the
equatorial
Pacific
in
time
to
cruise
there
.
Therefore
,
he
must
wait
for
the
next
ensuing
season
.
Yet
the
premature
hour
of
the
Pequod
's
sailing
had
,
perhaps
,
been
correctly
selected
by
Ahab
,
with
a
view
to
this
very
complexion
of
things
.
Because
,
an
interval
of
three
hundred
and
sixty-five
days
and
nights
was
before
him
;
an
interval
which
,
instead
of
impatiently
enduring
ashore
,
he
would
spend
in
a
miscellaneous
hunt
;
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
,
Traders
;
any
wind
but
the
Levanter
and
Simoon
,
might
blow
Moby
Dick
into
the
devious
zig-zag
world-circle
of
the
Pequod
's
circumnavigating
wake
.
But
granting
all
this
;
yet
,
regarded
discreetly
and
coolly
,
seems
it
not
but
a
mad
idea
,
this
;
that
in
the
broad
boundless
ocean
,
one
solitary
whale
,
even
if
encountered
,
should
be
thought
capable
of
individual
recognition
from
his
hunter
,
even
as
a
white-bearded
Mufti
in
the
thronged
thoroughfares
of
Constantinople
?
Yes
.
For
the
peculiar
snow-white
brow
of
Moby
Dick
,
and
his
snow-white
hump
,
could
not
but
be
unmistakable
.
And
have
I
not
tallied
the
whale
,
Ahab
would
mutter
to
himself
,
as
after
poring
over
his
charts
till
long
after
midnight
he
would
throw
himself
back
in
reveries
--
tallied
him
,
and
shall
he
escape
?
His
broad
fins
are
bored
,
and
scalloped
out
like
a
lost
sheep
's
are
!
And
here
,
his
mad
mind
would
run
on
in
a
breathless
race
;
till
a
weariness
and
faintness
of
pondering
came
over
him
!
and
in
the
open
air
of
the
deck
he
would
seek
to
recover
his
strength
.
Ah
,
God
!
what
trances
of
torments
does
that
man
endure
who
is
consumed
with
one
unachieved
revengeful
desire
.
He
sleeps
with
clenched
hands
;
and
wakes
with
his
own
bloody
nails
in
his
palms
.
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
.
For
,
at
such
times
,
crazy
Ahab
,
the
scheming
,
unappeasedly
steadfast
hunter
of
the
white
whale
;
this
Ahab
that
had
gone
to
his
hammock
,
was
not
the
agent
that
so
caused
him
to
burst
from
it
in
horror
again
.
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
.
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
.
God
help
thee
,
old
man
,
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
.
So
far
as
what
there
may
be
of
a
narrative
in
this
book
;
and
,
indeed
,
as
indirectly
touching
one
or
two
very
interesting
and
curious
particulars
in
the
habits
of
sperm
whales
,
the
foregoing
chapter
,
in
its
earlier
part
,
is
as
important
a
one
as
will
be
found
in
this
volume
;
but
the
leading
matter
of
it
requires
to
be
still
further
and
more
familiarly
enlarged
upon
,
in
order
to
be
adequately
understood
,
and
moreover
to
take
away
any
incredulity
which
a
profound
ignorance
of
the
entire
subject
may
induce
in
some
minds
,
as
to
the
natural
verity
of
the
main
points
of
this
affair
.
I
care
not
to
perform
this
part
of
my
task
methodically
;
but
shall
be
content
to
produce
the
desired
impression
by
separate
citations
of
items
,
practically
or
reliably
known
to
me
as
a
whaleman
;
and
from
these
citations
,
I
take
it
--
the
conclusion
aimed
at
will
naturally
follow
of
itself
.
First
:
I
have
personally
known
three
instances
where
a
whale
,
after
receiving
a
harpoon
,
has
effected
a
complete
escape
;
and
,
after
an
interval
(
in
one
instance
of
three
years
)
,
has
been
again
struck
by
the
same
hand
,
and
slain
;
when
the
two
irons
,
both
marked
by
the
same
private
cypher
,
have
been
taken
from
the
body
.
In
the
instance
where
three
years
intervened
between
the
flinging
of
the
two
harpoons
;
and
I
think
it
may
have
been
something
more
than
that
;
the
man
who
darted
them
happening
,
in
the
interval
,
to
go
in
a
trading
ship
on
a
voyage
to
Africa
,
went
ashore
there
,
joined
a
discovery
party
,
and
penetrated
far
into
the
interior
,
where
he
travelled
for
a
period
of
nearly
two
years
,
often
endangered
by
serpents
,
savages
,
tigers
,
poisonous
miasmas
,
with
all
the
other
common
perils
incident
to
wandering
in
the
heart
of
unknown
regions
.
Meanwhile
,
the
whale
he
had
struck
must
also
have
been
on
its
travels
;
no
doubt
it
had
thrice
circumnavigated
the
globe
,
brushing
with
its
flanks
all
the
coasts
of
Africa
;
but
to
no
purpose
.
This
man
and
this
whale
again
came
together
,
and
the
one
vanquished
the
other
.
I
say
I
,
myself
,
have
known
three
instances
similar
to
this
;
that
is
in
two
of
them
I
saw
the
whales
struck
;
and
,
upon
the
second
attack
,
saw
the
two
irons
with
the
respective
marks
cut
in
them
,
afterwards
taken
from
the
dead
fish
.
In
the
three-year
instance
,
it
so
fell
out
that
I
was
in
the
boat
both
times
,
first
and
last
,
and
the
last
time
distinctly
recognized
a
peculiar
sort
of
huge
mole
under
the
whale
's
eye
,
which
I
had
observed
there
three
years
previous
.
I
say
three
years
,
but
I
am
pretty
sure
it
was
more
than
that
.
Here
are
three
instances
,
then
,
which
I
personally
know
the
truth
of
;
but
I
have
heard
of
many
other
instances
from
persons
whose
veracity
in
the
matter
there
is
no
good
ground
to
impeach
.
Secondly
:
It
is
well
known
in
the
Sperm
Whale
Fishery
,
however
ignorant
the
world
ashore
may
be
of
it
,
that
there
have
been
several
memorable
historical
instances
where
a
particular
whale
in
the
ocean
has
been
at
distant
times
and
places
popularly
cognisable
.
Why
such
a
whale
became
thus
marked
was
not
altogether
and
originally
owing
to
his
bodily
peculiarities
as
distinguished
from
other
whales
;
for
however
peculiar
in
that
respect
any
chance
whale
may
be
,
they
soon
put
an
end
to
his
peculiarities
by
killing
him
,
and
boiling
him
down
into
a
peculiarly
valuable
oil
.
No
:
the
reason
was
this
:
that
from
the
fatal
experiences
of
the
fishery
there
hung
a
terrible
prestige
of
perilousness
about
such
a
whale
as
there
did
about
Rinaldo
Rinaldini
,
insomuch
that
most
fishermen
were
content
to
recognise
him
by
merely
touching
their
tarpaulins
when
he
would
be
discovered
lounging
by
them
on
the
sea
,
without
seeking
to
cultivate
a
more
intimate
acquaintance
.
Like
some
poor
devils
ashore
that
happen
to
known
an
irascible
great
man
,
they
make
distant
unobtrusive
salutations
to
him
in
the
street
,
lest
if
they
pursued
the
acquaintance
further
,
they
might
receive
a
summary
thump
for
their
presumption
.
