By Herman Melville, George Thomas Tanselle
"Moby-Dick," Melville's masterpiece, is likely one of the nice epics in all of literature. Ahab's idolatrous hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a constant speed, whereas Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, the elegant indifference of nature, and the dirty actual information of whale-oil extraction offer a reflective counterpoint. occasionally learn as a terrifying research of monomania or as a severe inquiry into the sinister results of lowering existence to symbols, "Moby-Dick" additionally bargains colourful and comedian glimpses of existence aboard a whaling send. This moment quantity of Melville's entire prose within the Library of the United States additionally comprises different tales of the ocean: "Redburn," which relates a tender man's initiation into the sailor's lifestyles, and "White-Jacket," a semi-autobiographical account of reviews within the U.S. army. All 3 are awarded within the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry texts.
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In vain I expostulated; he was not to be moved, so I pocketed the money and departed. Page 30 Chapter 5 He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Day Picks Up His Board and Lodging Along the Wharves The first thing I now did was to buy a little stationery, and keep my promise to my mother, by writing her; and I also wrote to my brother, informing him of the voyage I purposed making, and indulging in some romantic and misanthropic views of life, such as many boys in my circumstances, are accustomed to do.
Here in my bundle," said I, holding it up. "Well if that's all you've got," he cried, "you'd better chuck it overboard. " And with that he directed me to a sort of hole in the deck in the bow of the ship; but looking down, and seeing how dark it was, I asked him for a light. " So I groped my way down into the forecastle, which smelt so bad of old ropes and tar, that it almost made me sick. After waiting patiently, I began to see a little; and looking round, at last perceived I was in a smoky looking place, with twelve wooden boxes stuck round the sides.
My whole soul was soured within me, and when at last the captain's clerk, a slender young man, dressed in the height of fashion, with a gold Page 18 watch chain and broach, came round collecting the tickets, I buttoned up my coat to the throat, clutched my gun, put on my leather cap, and pulling it well down, stood up like a sentry before him. He held out his hand, deeming any remark superfluous, as his object in pausing before me must be obvious. But I stood motionless and silent, and in a moment he saw how it was with me.