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Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2021

MOBY Dick illustrated by MEAD SCHAEFFER

 Mead Schaeffer (July 15, 1898 – November 6, 1980) was an American illustrator active from the early to middle twentieth century.

 

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He raised a gull-like cry in the air. "There she blows - there she blows! Hump like a snowhill! It is Moby Dick!"
 


"Come along then; do come; won't ye come?"


I tore from her, and with a sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the mark.


Foreboding shiversran over me. Reality outran apprehensions; captain Ahab stood upon his quater-deck.


"D'ye mark him, Flask?" whispered Stubb; "The chick that's in him pecks the shell. 'Twill soon be out."


 
"Pull, pull, my fine hearts alive; pull, my children; ull, my little ones!


Ishmael tells the Town-Ho's story.


And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet.


The Malays are after us.


 
Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt.


"There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one captain that is Lord over the Pequod on deck!"


During the most violent shocks of the typhoon, the man at the Pequod's jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck.





 

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