Profound Moby Dick Quotes Thread (AKA the Ishmael Spam Thread)

[Ishmael]

Entire Masterpiece online: http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/moby/moby-1.html

Keyword search also!

Here is the first one:
(I searched the word Grim)

Oh, life! 'tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but 'tis not me! that horror's out of me! and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences!

[semmie]

There we sat up to our knees in the sea, the water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing eyes the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the bottom of the ocean.

how's that?

[Ishmael]

There we sat up to our knees in the sea, the water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing eyes the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the bottom of the ocean.

how's that?

It's excellent.

[spiritmech]

I've started this one, like so many books. You should quote the part near the beginning when he and the Indian are cuddling in bed. I died laughing at that part.

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