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And
,
indeed
,
it
seemed
small
matter
for
wonder
,
that
for
all
his
pervading
,
mad
recklessness
,
Ahab
,
did
at
times
give
careful
heed
to
the
condition
of
that
dead
bone
upon
which
he
partly
stood
.
For
it
had
not
been
very
long
prior
to
the
Pequod
's
sailing
from
Nantucket
,
that
he
had
been
found
one
night
lying
prone
upon
the
ground
,
and
insensible
;
by
some
unknown
,
and
seemingly
inexplicable
,
unimaginable
casualty
,
his
ivory
limb
having
been
so
violently
displaced
,
that
it
had
stake-wise
smitten
,
and
all
but
pierced
his
groin
;
nor
was
it
without
extreme
difficulty
that
the
agonizing
wound
was
entirely
cured
.
Nor
,
at
the
time
,
had
it
failed
to
enter
his
monomaniac
mind
,
that
all
the
anguish
of
that
then
present
suffering
was
but
the
direct
issue
of
former
woe
;
and
he
too
plainly
seemed
to
see
,
that
as
the
most
poisonous
reptile
of
the
marsh
perpetuates
his
kind
as
inevitably
as
the
sweetest
songster
of
the
grove
;
so
,
equally
with
every
felicity
,
all
miserable
events
do
naturally
beget
their
like
.
Yea
,
more
than
equally
,
thought
Ahab
;
since
both
tie
ancestry
and
posterity
of
Grief
go
further
than
the
ancestry
and
posterity
of
Joy
.
For
,
not
to
hint
of
this
:
that
it
is
an
inference
from
certain
canonic
teachings
,
that
while
some
natural
enjoyments
here
shall
have
no
children
born
to
them
for
the
other
world
,
but
,
on
the
contrary
,
shall
be
followed
by
the
joy-childlessness
of
all
hell
's
despair
;
whereas
,
some
guilty
mortal
miseries
shall
still
fertilely
beget
to
themselves
an
eternally
progressive
progeny
of
griefs
beyond
the
grave
;
not
at
all
to
hint
of
this
,
there
still
seems
an
inequality
in
the
deeper
analysis
of
the
thing
.
For
,
thought
Ahab
,
while
even
the
highest
earthly
felicities
ever
have
a
certain
unsignifying
pettiness
lurking
in
them
,
but
,
at
bottom
,
all
heartwoes
,
a
mystic
significance
,
and
,
in
some
men
,
an
archangelic
grandeur
;
so
do
their
diligent
tracings-out
not
belie
the
obvious
deduction
.
To
trail
the
genealogies
of
these
high
mortal
miseries
,
carries
us
at
last
among
the
sourceless
primogenitures
of
the
gods
;
so
that
,
in
the
face
of
all
the
glad
,
hay-making
suns
,
and
softcymballing
,
round
harvest-moons
,
we
must
needs
give
in
to
this
:
that
the
gods
themselves
are
not
for
ever
glad
.
The
ineffaceable
,
sad
birth-mark
in
the
brow
of
man
,
is
but
the
stamp
of
sorrow
in
the
signers
.
Unwittingly
here
a
secret
has
been
divulged
,
which
perhaps
might
more
properly
,
in
set
way
,
have
been
disclosed
before
.
With
many
other
particulars
concerning
Ahab
,
always
had
it
remained
a
mystery
to
some
,
why
it
was
,
that
for
a
certain
period
,
both
before
and
after
the
sailing
of
the
Pequod
,
he
had
hidden
himself
away
with
such
Grand-Lama-like
exclusiveness
;
and
,
for
that
one
interval
,
sought
speechless
refuge
,
as
it
were
,
among
the
marble
senate
of
the
dead
.
Captain
Peleg
's
bruited
reason
for
this
thing
appeared
by
no
means
adequate
;
though
,
indeed
,
as
touching
all
Ahab
's
deeper
part
,
every
revelation
partook
more
of
significant
darkness
than
of
explanatory
light
.
But
,
in
the
end
,
it
all
came
out
;
this
one
matter
did
,
at
least
.
That
direful
mishap
was
at
the
bottom
of
his
temporary
recluseness
.
And
not
only
this
,
but
to
that
ever-contracting
,
dropping
circle
ashore
,
who
for
any
reason
,
possessed
the
privilege
of
a
less
banned
approach
to
him
;
to
that
timid
circle
the
above
hinted
casualty
--
remaining
,
as
it
did
,
moodily
unaccounted
for
by
Ahab
--
invested
itself
with
terrors
,
not
entirely
underived
from
the
land
of
spirits
and
of
wails
So
that
,
through
their
zeal
for
him
,
they
had
all
conspired
,
so
far
as
in
them
lay
,
to
muffle
up
the
knowledge
of
this
thing
from
others
;
and
hence
it
was
,
that
not
till
a
considerable
interval
had
elapsed
,
did
it
transpire
upon
the
Pequod
's
decks
.
But
be
all
this
as
it
may
;
let
the
unseen
,
ambiguous
synod
in
the
air
,
or
the
vindictive
princes
and
potentates
of
fire
,
have
to
do
or
not
with
earthly
Ahab
,
yet
,
in
this
present
matter
of
his
leg
,
he
took
plain
practical
procedures
;
--
he
called
the
carpenter
.
And
when
that
functionary
appeared
before
him
,
he
bade
him
without
delay
set
about
making
a
new
leg
,
and
directed
the
mates
to
see
him
supplied
with
all
the
studs
and
joists
of
jaw-ivory
(
Sperm
Whale
)
which
had
thus
far
been
accumulated
on
the
voyage
,
in
order
that
a
careful
selection
of
the
stoutest
,
clearest-grained
stuff
might
be
secured
.
This
done
,
the
carpenter
received
orders
to
have
the
leg
completed
that
night
;
and
to
provide
all
the
fittings
for
it
,
independent
of
those
pertaining
to
the
distrusted
one
in
use
.
Moreover
,
the
ship
's
forge
was
ordered
to
be
hoisted
out
of
its
temporary
idleness
in
the
hold
;
and
,
to
accelerate
the
affair
,
the
blacksmith
was
commanded
to
proceed
at
once
to
the
forging
of
whatever
iron
contrivances
might
be
needed
.
Seat
thyself
sultanically
among
the
moons
of
Saturn
,
and
take
high
abstracted
man
alone
;
and
he
seems
a
wonder
,
a
grandeur
,
and
a
woe
.
But
from
the
same
point
,
take
mankind
in
mass
,
and
for
the
most
part
,
they
seem
a
mob
of
unnecessary
duplicates
,
both
contemporary
and
hereditary
.
But
most
humble
though
he
was
,
and
far
from
furnishing
an
example
of
the
high
,
humane
abstraction
;
the
Pequod
's
carpenter
was
no
duplicate
;
hence
,
he
now
comes
in
person
on
this
stage
.
Like
all
sea-going
ship
carpenters
,
and
more
especially
those
belonging
to
whaling
vessels
,
he
was
,
to
a
certain
off-hand
,
practical
extent
,
alike
experienced
in
numerous
trades
and
callings
collateral
to
his
own
;
the
carpenter
's
pursuit
being
the
ancient
and
outbranching
trunk
of
all
those
numerous
handicrafts
which
more
or
less
have
to
do
with
wood
as
an
auxiliary
material
.
But
,
besides
the
application
to
him
of
the
generic
remark
above
,
this
carpenter
of
the
Pequod
was
singularly
efficient
in
those
thousand
nameless
mechanical
emergencies
continually
recurring
in
a
large
ship
,
upon
a
three
or
four
years
'
voyage
,
in
uncivilized
and
far-distant
seas
.
For
not
to
speak
of
his
readiness
in
ordinary
duties
:
--
repairing
stove
boats
,
sprung
spars
,
reforming
the
shape
of
clumsy-bladed
oars
,
inserting
bull
's
eyes
in
the
deck
,
or
new
tree-nails
in
the
side
planks
,
and
other
miscellaneous
matters
more
directly
pertaining
to
his
special
business
;
he
was
moreover
unhesitatingly
expert
in
all
manner
of
conflicting
aptitudes
,
both
useful
and
capricious
.
The
one
grand
stage
where
he
enacted
all
his
various
parts
so
manifold
,
was
his
vice-bench
;
a
long
rude
ponderous
table
furnished
with
several
vices
,
of
different
sizes
,
and
both
of
iron
and
of
wood
.
At
all
times
except
when
whales
were
alongside
,
this
bench
was
securely
lashed
athwartships
against
the
rear
of
the
Try-works
.
