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Works of Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Chapters 119 - 135

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

Melville, Herman
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Moby Dick: Chapters 119 - 135

Chapter CXIX The Candles

In the evening of the day on which Ahab smashes the quadrant, a typhoon
(the most violent of all the world's storms) suddenly strikes the Pequod,
tearing off several of her sails and rolling huge waves onto her deck. One
wave smashes Ahab's whaleboat. Stubb, as usual, makes a joke of danger, and
sings a rollicking song, but Starbuck warns him that there are omens all
around them. The typhoon is from the east, where Ahab is heading for Moby
Dick, and Ahab's whaleboat has been crushed at exactly the ...

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