Moby Dick Pod

"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." Ishmael rethinks his voyage on the Pequod and makes Queegqueg the inheritor of his possessions. 

"Devils are good fellows enough." They hunt the a pod of whales in the middle of a squall, Ahab has a secret whale-boat crew unbeknownst to the rest of The Pequod until now. 

"There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!" The Pequod spots a whale.  

"To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order." Ahab walks a fine line between dominion over the ship's crew and chaos. 

"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." Ishmael reviews other times whales have attacked ships. 

"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,...

"There is somebody down in the after-hold that has not yet been seen on deck" There's a mysterious noise. 

"What the White Whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid." Ishmael talks about all things white. 

"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing." We learn of the sailor's lore surrounding Moby Dick and also of how Ahab came to lose his leg and his return to Nantucket. 

"Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy" The crew starts dancing, drinking, getting horny, and starting a race war. 

"Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!" Stubb's thoughts. A true Melville-needed-an-editor chapter.

"And with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences!" Starbuck deep in thought.

"I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass." Ahab's dark frame of mind. 

"Then tossing both arms, with measureless imprecations he shouted out: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the Norway maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up." Ahab whips the crew into a frenzy. 

"At last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flittin...

"Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished." The crew eats and Ishmael observes how the old seafaring traditions and power structures play out over dinner. 

"Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!" Ishmael talks about the harpooner and the dictator-like qualities of the captain of a whale ship. 

"For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included." Ishmael (or Melville) describes all the different types of whales. It's a real page turner. 

"Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask? I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho'." Stubb recounts his dream to Flask, attempting to explain why it's cool to get kicked by someone.  

"How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized?" After discovering he no longer enjoys smoking, Ahab throws his pipe overboard.  

"A hot old man! I guess he's got what some folks ashore call a conscience." Ishmael witnesses an altercation between Captain Ahab and the second mate, Stubb. 

"So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood." Ishmael lays eyes on Captain Ahab for the first time. 

"They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own. Yet now, federated along one keel, what a set these Isolatoes were!" Ishmael describes the other mates aboard the Pequod. Starbuck, Stubb, Flask, Tishtego, & Daggoo. 

"I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward." Ishmael describes Starbuck, 1st mate.  

"We whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff!" Ishmael forgot to include this chapter in the last.