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But
as
if
perceiving
this
stratagem
,
Moby
Dick
,
with
that
malicious
intelligence
ascribed
to
him
,
sidelingly
transplanted
himself
,
as
it
were
,
in
an
instant
,
shooting
his
pleated
head
lengthwise
beneath
the
boat
.
Through
and
through
;
through
every
plank
and
each
rib
,
it
thrilled
for
an
instant
,
the
whale
obliquely
lying
on
his
back
,
in
the
manner
of
a
biting
shark
slowly
and
feelingly
taking
its
bows
full
within
his
mouth
,
so
that
the
long
,
narrow
,
scrolled
lower
jaw
curled
high
up
into
the
open
air
,
and
one
of
the
teeth
caught
in
a
row-lock
.
The
bluish
pearl-white
of
the
inside
of
the
jaw
was
within
six
inches
of
Ahab
's
head
,
and
reached
higher
than
that
.
In
this
attitude
the
White
Whale
now
shook
the
slight
cedar
as
a
mildly
cruel
cat
her
mouse
.
With
unastonished
eyes
Fedallah
gazed
,
and
crossed
his
arms
;
but
the
tiger-yellow
crew
were
tumbling
over
each
other
's
heads
to
gain
the
uttermost
stern
.
And
now
,
while
both
elastic
gunwales
were
springing
in
and
out
,
as
the
whale
dallied
with
the
doomed
craft
in
this
devilish
way
;
and
from
his
body
being
submerged
beneath
the
boat
,
he
could
not
be
darted
at
from
the
bows
,
for
the
bows
were
almost
inside
of
him
,
as
it
were
;
and
while
the
other
boats
involuntarily
paused
,
as
before
a
quick
crisis
impossible
to
withstand
,
then
it
was
that
monomaniac
Ahab
,
furious
with
this
tantalizing
vicinity
of
his
foe
,
which
placed
him
all
alive
and
helpless
in
the
very
jaws
he
hated
;
frenzied
with
all
this
,
he
seized
the
long
bone
with
his
naked
hands
,
and
wildly
strove
to
wrench
from
its
gripe
.
As
now
he
thus
vainly
strove
,
the
jaw
slipped
from
him
;
the
frail
gunwales
bent
in
,
collapsed
,
and
snapped
,
as
both
jaws
,
like
an
enormous
shears
,
sliding
further
aft
,
bit
the
craft
completely
in
twain
,
and
locked
themselves
fast
again
in
the
sea
,
midway
between
the
two
floating
wrecks
.
These
floated
aside
,
the
broken
ends
drooping
,
the
crew
at
the
stern-wreck
clinging
to
the
gunwales
,
and
striving
to
hold
fast
to
the
oars
to
lash
them
across
.
At
that
preluding
moment
,
ere
the
boat
was
yet
snapped
,
Ahab
,
the
first
to
perceive
the
whale
's
intent
,
by
the
crafty
upraising
of
his
head
,
a
movement
that
loosed
his
hold
for
the
time
;
at
that
moment
his
hand
had
made
one
final
effort
to
push
the
boat
out
of
the
bite
.
But
only
slipping
further
into
the
whale
's
mouth
,
and
tilting
over
sideways
as
it
slipped
,
the
boat
had
shaken
off
his
hold
on
the
jaw
;
spilled
him
out
of
it
,
as
he
leaned
to
the
push
;
and
so
he
fell
flat-faced
upon
the
sea
.
Ripplingly
withdrawing
from
his
prey
,
Moby
Dick
now
lay
at
a
little
distance
,
vertically
thrusting
his
oblong
white
head
up
and
down
in
the
billows
;
and
at
the
same
time
slowly
revolving
his
whole
spindled
body
;
so
that
when
his
vast
wrinkled
forehead
rose
--
some
twenty
or
more
feet
out
of
the
water
--
the
now
rising
swells
,
with
all
their
confluent
waves
,
dazzlingly
broke
against
it
;
vindictively
tossing
their
shivered
spray
still
higher
into
the
air
.
So
,
in
a
gale
,
the
but
half
baffled
Channel
billows
only
recoil
from
the
base
of
the
Eddystone
,
triumphantly
to
overleap
its
summit
with
their
scud
.
But
soon
resuming
his
horizontal
attitude
,
Moby
Dick
swam
swiftly
round
and
round
the
wrecked
crew
;
sideways
churning
the
water
in
his
vengeful
wake
,
as
if
lashing
himself
up
to
still
another
and
more
deadly
assault
.
The
sight
of
the
splintered
boat
seemed
to
madden
him
,
as
the
blood
of
grapes
and
mulberries
cast
before
Antiochus
's
elephants
in
the
book
of
Maccabees
.
Meanwhile
Ahab
half
smothered
in
the
foam
of
the
whale
's
insolent
tail
,
and
too
much
of
a
cripple
to
swim
--
though
he
could
still
keep
afloat
,
even
in
the
heart
of
such
a
whirlpool
as
that
;
helpless
Ahab
's
head
was
seen
,
like
a
tossed
bubble
which
the
least
chance
shock
might
burst
.
From
the
boat
's
fragmentary
stern
,
Fedallah
incuriously
and
mildly
eved
him
;
the
clinging
crew
,
at
the
other
drifting
end
,
could
not
succor
him
;
more
than
enough
was
it
for
them
to
look
to
themselves
.
For
so
revolvingly
appalling
was
the
White
Whale
's
aspect
,
and
so
planetarily
swift
the
ever-contracting
circles
he
made
,
that
he
seemed
horizontally
swooping
upon
them
.
And
though
the
other
boats
,
unharmed
,
still
hovered
hard
by
;
still
they
dared
not
pull
into
the
eddy
to
strike
,
lest
that
should
be
the
signal
for
the
instant
destruction
of
the
jeopardized
castaways
,
Ahab
and
all
;
nor
in
that
case
could
they
themselves
hope
to
escape
.
With
straining
eyes
,
then
,
they
remained
on
the
outer
edge
of
the
direful
zone
,
whose
centre
had
now
become
the
old
man
's
head
.
Meantime
,
from
the
beginning
all
this
had
been
descried
from
the
ship
's
mast
heads
;
and
squaring
her
yards
,
she
had
borne
down
upon
the
scene
;
and
was
now
so
nigh
,
that
Ahab
in
the
water
hailed
her
!
--
"
Sail
on
the
"
--
but
that
moment
a
breaking
sea
dashed
on
him
from
Moby
Dick
,
and
whelmed
him
for
the
time
.
But
struggling
out
of
it
again
,
and
chancing
to
rise
on
a
towering
crest
,
he
shouted
--
"
Sail
on
the
whale
!
--
Drive
him
off
!
"
The
Pequod
's
prows
were
pointed
-
,
and
breaking
up
the
charmed
circle
,
she
effectually
parted
the
white
whale
from
his
victim
.
As
he
sullenly
swam
off
,
the
boats
flew
to
the
rescue
.
Dragged
into
Stubb
's
boat
with
blood-shot
,
blinded
eyes
,
the
white
brine
caking
in
his
wrinkles
;
the
long
tension
of
Ahab
's
bodily
strength
did
crack
,
and
helplessly
he
yielded
to
his
body
's
doom
for
a
time
,
lying
all
crushed
in
the
bottom
of
Stubb
's
boat
,
like
one
trodden
under
foot
of
herds
of
elephants
.
Far
inland
,
nameless
wails
came
from
him
,
as
desolate
sounds
from
out
ravines
.
