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There are those sharks now over the side, don't you see they prefer it tough and rare? What a shindy they are kicking up! Cook, go and talk to 'em; tell 'em they are welcome to help themselves civilly, and in moderation, but they must keep quiet. Blast me, if I can hear my own voice. Away, cook, and deliver my message. Here, take this lantern," snatching one from his sideboard; "now then, go and preach to 'em! Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 64: Stubb's Supper)
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Cool and possessed of a gallows humor, Stubbs was my favorite character…until he decided to pick on the cook. Turns out he’s not so much Meursault as he is Mitt

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The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which, after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubb's sideboard; when, with both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideways inclining his head, so as to bring his best ear into play. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 64: Stubb's Supper)
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The “old black” cook walks funny, “like many old blacks.” That’s hilarious. That’s a lifetime of slavery of near-slavery and abuse! That’s hilarious.

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If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 64: Stubb's Supper)
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Not a lot of people can pass judgement on devil-worship I guess.

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How at such an apparently unassailable surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains a part of the universal problem of all things Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 64: Stubb's Supper)
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Seems like it’s totally answerable question, actually.

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, yet now and then you find some of these Nantucketers who have a genuine relish for that particular part of the Sperm Whale designated by Stubb; comprising the tapering extremity of the body. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 64: Stubb's Supper)
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The small is the part of the whales tale right in front of the flukes

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Vacantly eyeing the heaving whale for a moment, he issued the usual orders for securing it for the night, and then handing his lantern to a seaman, went his way into the cabin, and did not come forward again until morning. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 64: Stubb's Supper)
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Ahab is so bored by anything that isn’t Moby Dick. It’s a rough life.

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Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 63: The Crotch)
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Ishmael is justifying his digressions. It’s OKAY homeboy.

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All these particulars are faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be painted Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 63: The Crotch)
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Clumsy-ass exposition!

But…maybe calling attention to exposition is the most graceful exposition?

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respectively called the first and second irons Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 63: The Crotch)
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The crotch alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 63: The Crotch)
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