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~ Fedallah ~ quoting Sancho, "a follower of Islam probably gravitated towards Fedallah" "Spiritual" adviser to Ahab which may be hard to...

you might enjoy hearing that I temporarily gave up on them all and went instead with a Patrick McManus book!

"To be or not to be" cf. ""Would I be a murderer" Hamlet and Starbuck are two characters who suffered a similar fate. Both had been wronged....

All good stuff above, guys! Thanks bounty, Danik, hellsapoppin! So we've got Starbuck and Mocha Dick. When are we going to come across somebody named...

Winter

Lol! Quite true, bounty! mine worker

The real life inspiration for Moby Dick: ...

mine shaft which is maybe how you get to the gold mine to find the gold nugget in order to fashion the gold medal and the gold ring!

Starbuck ~ first mate. Second in command. Big character foil to Captain Ahab. Pragmatist. Ishmael tells us he is a Quaker and native of Nantucket....

Summer

Cataclysmic indeed!:D Challenge accepted! Next: stem, grasshopper, toadstool, sword fern, aloof, mask (Seems I didn´t post this yesterday) ...

Gold mine

Moby Dick isn´t just a book. It´s a particular world with it´s particular laws and you can be almost swallowed by it. Or not. You can put an cautious...

lake.

Was sotired yesterday on account of the heat probably that I went to sleep at 9 o'clock. Seems I forgot to log out. Senior episodes in streaming...

Sage advise with an almost touching moment. "Eros, what mean'st thou by this? In each of thine hands is an hourglass!" - Johann Wolfgang von...

Being throttled by my provider to the point that videos or telly difficult to watch... maybe later. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones

That right there is the main criticism of the book — too much detail about stuff that doesn't matter. A close second is — the prose is way overblown....

lagoon

gold nugget

when I read gone with the wind not too long ago I used an already existing thread on the book. seeing the old moby threads posted below in "similar...

five to six inches of snow tonight danik---that makes it tougher for the outdoor critters. ive done really good at feeing the birds, but I have a...

if you will be there again in the future for a fair length of time, after reading moby, you might enjoy venturing over to Nantucket and hitting up...

Haha! Get that kid a Seahawks jersey. I live in the PNW. I’ll have a Venti Pike’s. (20 ounce coffee) Stumptown Coffee works too. Lodge Dunkin?...

Starbucks? According to Boston Dad that is sacrilege if you're from Boston. According to him, you MUST go to Dunky Dunks:

I liked that scene, too. It was like a hoity-toity, black tie dinner with a wait staff and world-class cook serving food nobody really wants to eat...

Interesting chapter. Ahab and his officers settle down to dinner - they are described in royal terms with words such as sultan, Emir, Grand Turk, as...

creature