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Thus
,
while
in
the
life
the
great
whale
's
body
may
have
been
a
real
terror
to
his
foes
,
in
his
death
his
ghost
becomes
a
powerless
panic
to
a
world
.
Are
you
a
believer
in
ghosts
,
my
friend
?
There
are
other
ghosts
than
the
Cock-Lane
one
,
and
far
deeper
men
than
Doctor
Johnson
who
believe
in
them
.
It
should
not
have
been
omitted
that
previous
to
completely
stripping
the
body
of
the
leviathan
,
he
was
beheaded
.
Now
,
the
beheading
of
the
Sperm
Whale
is
a
scientific
anatomical
feat
,
upon
which
experienced
whale
surgeons
very
much
pride
themselves
:
and
not
without
reason
.
Consider
that
the
whale
has
nothing
that
can
properly
be
called
a
neck
;
on
the
contrary
,
where
his
head
and
body
seem
to
join
,
there
,
in
that
very
place
,
is
the
thickest
part
of
him
.
Remember
,
also
,
that
the
surgeon
must
operate
from
above
,
some
eight
or
ten
feet
intervening
between
him
and
his
subject
,
and
that
subject
almost
hidden
in
a
discolored
,
rolling
,
and
oftentimes
tumultuous
and
bursting
sea
.
Bear
in
mind
,
too
,
that
under
these
untoward
circumstances
he
has
to
cut
many
feet
deep
in
the
flesh
;
and
in
that
subterraneous
manner
,
without
so
much
as
getting
one
single
peep
into
the
ever-contracting
gash
thus
made
,
he
must
skillfully
steer
clear
of
all
adjacent
,
interdicted
parts
,
and
exactly
divide
the
spine
at
a
critical
point
hard
by
its
insertion
into
the
skull
.
Do
you
not
marvel
,
then
,
at
Stubb
's
boast
,
that
he
demanded
but
ten
minutes
to
behead
a
sperm
whale
?
When
first
severed
,
the
head
is
dropped
astern
and
held
there
by
a
cable
till
the
body
is
stripped
.
That
done
,
if
it
belong
to
a
small
whale
it
is
hoisted
on
deck
to
be
deliberately
disposed
of
.
But
,
with
a
full
grown
leviathan
this
is
impossible
;
for
the
sperm
whale
's
head
embraces
nearly
one
third
of
his
entire
bulk
,
and
completely
to
suspend
such
a
burden
as
that
,
even
by
the
immense
tackles
of
a
whaler
,
this
were
as
vain
a
thing
as
to
attempt
weighing
a
Dutch
barn
in
jewellers
'
scales
.
The
Pequod
's
whale
being
decapitated
and
the
body
stripped
,
the
head
was
hoisted
against
the
ship
's
side
--
about
half
way
out
of
the
sea
,
so
that
it
might
yet
in
great
part
be
buoyed
up
by
its
native
element
.
And
there
with
the
strained
craft
steeply
leaning
over
it
,
by
reason
of
the
enormous
downward
drag
from
the
lower
mast-head
,
and
every
yard-arm
on
that
side
projecting
like
a
crane
over
the
waves
;
there
,
that
blood-dripping
head
hung
to
the
Pequod
's
waist
like
the
giant
Holofernes
's
from
the
girdle
of
Judith
.
When
this
last
task
was
accomplished
it
was
noon
,
and
the
seamen
went
below
to
their
dinner
.
Silence
reigned
over
the
before
tumultuous
but
now
deserted
deck
.
An
intense
copper
calm
,
like
a
universal
yellow
lotus
,
was
more
and
more
unfolding
its
noiseless
measureless
leaves
upon
the
sea
.
A
short
space
elapsed
,
and
up
into
this
noiselessness
came
Ahab
alone
from
his
cabin
.
Taking
a
few
turns
on
the
quarter-deck
,
he
paused
to
gaze
over
the
side
,
then
slowly
getting
into
the
main-chains
he
took
Stubb
's
long
spade
still
remaining
there
after
the
whale
's
decapitation
and
striking
it
into
the
lower
part
of
the
half-suspended
mass
,
placed
its
other
end
crutchwise
under
one
arm
,
and
so
stood
leaning
over
with
eyes
attentively
fixed
on
this
head
.
It
was
a
black
and
hooded
head
;
and
hanging
there
in
the
midst
of
so
intense
a
calm
,
it
seemed
the
Sphynx
's
in
the
desert
.
"
Speak
,
thou
vast
and
venerable
head
,
"
muttered
Ahab
,
"
which
,
though
ungarnished
with
a
beard
,
yet
here
and
there
lookest
hoary
with
mosses
;
speak
,
mighty
head
,
and
tell
us
the
secret
thing
that
is
in
thee
.
Of
all
divers
,
thou
hast
dived
the
deepest
.
That
head
upon
which
the
upper
sun
now
gleams
,
has
moved
amid
this
world
's
foundations
.
Where
unrecorded
names
and
navies
rust
,
and
untold
hopes
and
anchors
rot
;
where
in
her
murderous
hold
this
frigate
earth
is
ballasted
with
bones
of
millions
of
the
drowned
;
there
,
in
that
awful
water-land
,
there
was
thy
most
familiar
home
.
Thou
hast
been
where
bell
or
diver
never
went
;
hast
slept
by
many
a
sailor
's
side
,
where
sleepless
mothers
would
give
their
lives
to
lay
them
down
.
Thou
saw
's
t
the
locked
lovers
when
leaping
from
their
flaming
ship
;
heart
to
heart
they
sank
beneath
the
exulting
wave
;
true
to
each
other
,
when
heaven
seemed
false
to
them
.
Thou
saw
's
t
the
murdered
mate
when
tossed
by
pirates
from
the
midnight
deck
;
for
hours
he
fell
into
the
deeper
midnight
of
the
insatiate
maw
;
and
his
murderers
still
sailed
on
unharmed
--
while
swift
lightnings
shivered
the
neighboring
ship
that
would
have
borne
a
righteous
husband
to
outstretched
,
longing
arms
.
O
head
!
thou
has
seen
enough
to
split
the
planets
and
make
an
infidel
of
Abraham
,
and
not
one
syllable
is
thine
!
"
