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For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 16: The Ship)
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Foregrounding the tragedy of Ahab’s ambition. Recall the lesson of Father Mapple’s sermon from chapter 9.

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They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 16: The Ship)
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Quakers are pacifists, opposed to war.

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"What you say is no doubt true enough, sir; but how could I know there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale, though indeed I might have inferred as much from the simple fact of the accident." Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 16: The Ship)
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Ishmael has a tendency to talk like that annoying guy from Big Bang Theory.

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A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 16: The Ship)
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The broble Prince Harry seems pretty untouched by melancholy…

Maybe Melville meant “all noble [non-bro] things.”

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She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed look about her Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 16: The Ship)
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Chippendale furniture, which was old-school by the time Melville was writing Moby Dick, was famous for its claw-footed pieces.

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Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 15: Chowder)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ojydNb3Lrrs#t=83

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I thought I would try a little experiment. Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered the word "cod" with great emphasis, and resumed my seat. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 15: Chowder)
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If only it was so easy to get a bartender’s attention.

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a corner three points to the starboard Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 15: Chowder)
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Three points is a little less than 45 degrees. See this for more information about seamen navigation.

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that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 14: Nantucket)
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Nantucket doesn’t have many trees because early European settlers cut them down and the climate makes it difficult for tall hard woods to take root. For more about the island’s unique ecology see: https://www.nantucketconservation.org/stewardship/flora/

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Tartar Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 13: Wheelbarrow)
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The air is raw / fresh, but seasoned (with sea salt, etc), much like the meat in steak tartar.

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