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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Melville, Herman

Melville, Herman
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Moby Dick: Chapters 64 - 81

Chapter LXIV Stubb's Supper

Since there is no wind, the Pequod cannot sail to the floating whale, so
the three whale boats fix lines to the hulk and laboriously tow it back to the
ship. The task takes several hours, and it is longer after dark when the whale
is fastened to the Pequod's side for the night. Stubb, who likes whale steak,
exuberantly insists upon having a midnight supper from his victim, and starts
to eat it standing at the capstan (a kind of winch used for pulling up the
anchor). At the same time, hundreds of ...

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