Nor is It at All Prudent for The Hunter to be Over

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ZLnl8yDRTnY9ifLbXAyQA-vYjfxxeLPGwNS6M-hh-h4JAspRae95A849GSIMZb2B7xsoSputStIsdsT6aO0u1-h97bQfo_PojuEopWPrmbd3taGVGge-OejzJdVlHwKWYIEF9WjLg70/s300/22+(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #999999; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ZLnl8yDRTnY9ifLbXAyQA-vYjfxxeLPGwNS6M-hh-h4JAspRae95A849GSIMZb2B7xsoSputStIsdsT6aO0u1-h97bQfo_PojuEopWPrmbd3taGVGge-OejzJdVlHwKWYIEF9WjLg70/s300/22+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it. And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm. Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it. Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you. The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is to let this deadly spout alone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish. My hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the Sperm Whale; I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores; all other whales sometimes are. He is both ponderous and profound. And I am convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there always goes up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep thoughts. While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head. The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above supposition.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMbCy8hba14QTFelvnYbuavlzAGQY6oijeDEoCr5HwD2OtpbU_xJrXpqVvuY4OX4tHM1LFiUt0Xs1aDsVNWvYMdIeGJE_wX74WfAMMunPDJp6lboBeMjQ0E2z_A-XAhSKCdtIsGOM3Fw/s1600/410_133.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSMbCy8hba14QTFelvnYbuavlzAGQY6oijeDEoCr5HwD2OtpbU_xJrXpqVvuY4OX4tHM1LFiUt0Xs1aDsVNWvYMdIeGJE_wX74WfAMMunPDJp6lboBeMjQ0E2z_A-XAhSKCdtIsGOM3Fw/s320/410_133.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapour, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapour—as you will sometimes see it—glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts. For, d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapour. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.</span><br /> <blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflf3TEoe9j6F-AU6KKQaDL9-qdsw5J-DixWwBmZRyXNaj0lC21wodhgUxscgWGUrwJ8-KS4OHhYowBHMs9qsa0FZjpFmAPuh9azPdnGNh3fRr5JHVeO-r2WJlKtgiOcTP4Zw2MMoKDqzs/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</blockquote> <ul id="test" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> <li>Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout</li> <li>It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face in it</li> <li>You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away</li> <li>For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it</li> <li>And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm</li> <li>Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it</li> </ul> <ol style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> <li>For Tharks they were wildly enthusiastic, and before another half hour had passed twenty mounted messengers were speeding across dead sea bottoms to call the hordes together for the expedition</li> <li>In three days we were on the march toward Zodanga, one hundred thousand strong, as Tars Tarkas had been able to enlist the services of three smaller hordes on the promise of the great loot of Zodanga</li> <li>At the head of the column I rode beside the great Thark while at the heels of my mount trotted my beloved Woola</li> <li>We traveled entirely by night, timing our marches so that we camped during the day at deserted cities where, even to the beasts, we were all kept indoors during the daylight hours</li> </ol> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;" /> <h1 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> Example Heading 1</h1> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> Example Heading 2</h2> <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> Example Heading 3</h3> <h4 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> Example Heading 4</h4> <h5 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> Example Heading 5</h5> <h6 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Bitter, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> Example Heading 6</h6> </div>

Nor is It at All Prudent for The Hunter to be Over

Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be p...

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But The Suddenly Started Pequod

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming—"Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Then God keep thee, old man—see'st thou that"—pointing to the hammock—"I bury but one of five stout men, who were alive only yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only THAT one I bury; the rest were buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb." Then turning to his crew—"Are ye ready there? place the plank then on the rail, and lift the body; so, then—Oh! God"—advancing towards the hammock with uplifted hands—"may the resurrection and the life—"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Brace forward! Up helm!" cried Ahab like lightning to his men.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> <br /></div> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhanjnU5hdxSXdx5-wmKb6fYnBEaLflFC_0xruKWVYWZY7d-ttLxo_ex7PH9wpsVQwwdWDT_hAwNgqegwmflR3AJhSc-5SqqPip1EbouspGh56hyphenhyphenqUNCOaKb1T_5_HHQ6rx8aWX9rwTqE/s1600/marcfolio-headphones02.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhanjnU5hdxSXdx5-wmKb6fYnBEaLflFC_0xruKWVYWZY7d-ttLxo_ex7PH9wpsVQwwdWDT_hAwNgqegwmflR3AJhSc-5SqqPip1EbouspGh56hyphenhyphenqUNCOaKb1T_5_HHQ6rx8aWX9rwTqE/s320/marcfolio-headphones02.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea; not so quick, indeed, but that some of the flying bubbles might have sprinkled her hull with their ghostly baptism.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Ha! yonder! look yonder, men!" cried a foreboding voice in her wake. "In vain, oh, ye strangers, ye fly our sad burial; ye but turn us your taffrail to show us your coffin!"</div> </div>

But The Suddenly Started Pequod

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What is It That in The Albino Man so Peculiarly

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Mm9SVirrweh1goGwurtoaqVuFsIHATe4KbV6k4uki02h0_NPXrmkM0ESmqIRenJFCrHZ82GmC80JTzYO93Q6ac0HunNcXgNgZdX6wnvFhttsem2i0x3nxOfCPGkrtT_GwtRzvZiocRU/s1600/24+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Mm9SVirrweh1goGwurtoaqVuFsIHATe4KbV6k4uki02h0_NPXrmkM0ESmqIRenJFCrHZ82GmC80JTzYO93Q6ac0HunNcXgNgZdX6wnvFhttsem2i0x3nxOfCPGkrtT_GwtRzvZiocRU/s320/24+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea. At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck, with the ship's time and place; and then letting it escape. But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking, and adoring cherubim!</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Most famous in our Western annals and test linkIndian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger, large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage. He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies. At their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads on the hosts of light. The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-browed and fearless as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.</div> <a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfT_l-2mzTIa3rRqra4fgQNKmknkuJPqVQPja6rVCPxr4lC8SvN9yDJo5fPeKB53GCje5wKtaFbEsDoPnv7TSDwucqyqiisJK-x5UY_UbmhdyTEV5oy1WrddKIkiml4ltl17KC35ziqtM/s1600/7.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfT_l-2mzTIa3rRqra4fgQNKmknkuJPqVQPja6rVCPxr4lC8SvN9yDJo5fPeKB53GCje5wKtaFbEsDoPnv7TSDwucqyqiisJK-x5UY_UbmhdyTEV5oy1WrddKIkiml4ltl17KC35ziqtM/s1600/7.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and Albatross.</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflf3TEoe9j6F-AU6KKQaDL9-qdsw5J-DixWwBmZRyXNaj0lC21wodhgUxscgWGUrwJ8-KS4OHhYowBHMs9qsa0FZjpFmAPuh9azPdnGNh3fRr5JHVeO-r2WJlKtgiOcTP4Zw2MMoKDqzs/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;"> What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin! It is that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name he bears. The Albino is as well made as other men—has no substantive deformity—and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. Why should this be so?</blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature link again with longer anchor text in her least palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible. From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary. How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue. It cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here. And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them. Nor even in our superstitions do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog—Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his pallid horse.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.</div> </div>

What is It That in The Albino Man so Peculiarly

But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the s...

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Crowding All Sail The Pequod

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But how now? in this zoned quest, does Ahab touch no land? does his crew drink air? Surely, he will stop for water. Nay. For a long time, now, the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself. So Ahab. Mark this, too, in the whaler. While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants. She has a whole lake's contents bottled in her ample hold. She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge. She carries years' water in her. Clear old prime Nantucket water; which, when three years afloat, the Nantucketer, in the Pacific, prefers to drink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks, from the Peruvian or Indian streams. Hence it is, that, while other ships may have gone to China from New York, and back again, touching at a score of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating seamen like themselves. So that did you carry them the news that another flood had come; they would only answer—"Well, boys, here's the ark!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured off the western coast of Java, in the near vicinity of the Straits of Sunda; indeed, as most of the ground, roundabout, was generally recognised by the fishermen as an excellent spot for cruising; therefore, as the Pequod gained more and more upon Java Head, the look-outs were repeatedly hailed, and admonished to keep wide awake. But though the green palmy cliffs of the land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was descried. Almost renouncing all thought of falling in with any game hereabouts, the ship had well nigh entered the straits, when the customary cheering cry was heard from aloft, and ere long a spectacle of singular magnificence saluted us.</div> <a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipA7zJD5IW7L4ne2e_owkgR9I6ltA3T9ilz8XDBZCPfAh0OjLxhzsSht6VyUXJGYv3D8u6c7a-_DBsoyhNqwfXMCpBuSuXGjkl9Pkta0-o0fBpWflMw8EtvSmt1gvzcH2YRHlOxdUrD8/s1600/ranfirefly01.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipA7zJD5IW7L4ne2e_owkgR9I6ltA3T9ilz8XDBZCPfAh0OjLxhzsSht6VyUXJGYv3D8u6c7a-_DBsoyhNqwfXMCpBuSuXGjkl9Pkta0-o0fBpWflMw8EtvSmt1gvzcH2YRHlOxdUrD8/s400/ranfirefly01.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But here be it premised, that owing to the unwearied activity with which of late they have been hunted over all four oceans, the Sperm Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive herds, sometimes embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual assistance and protection. To this aggregation of the Sperm Whale into such immense caravans, may be imputed the circumstance that even in the best cruising grounds, you may now sometimes sail for weeks and months together, without being greeted by a single spout; and then be suddenly saluted by what sometimes seems thousands on thousands.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and forming a great semicircle, embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the noon-day air. Unlike the straight perpendicular twin-jets of the Right Whale, which, dividing at top, fall over in two branches, like the cleft drooping boughs of a willow, the single forward-slanting spout of the Sperm Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually rising and falling away to leeward.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of the sea, this host of vapoury spouts, individually curling up into the air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains, accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Crowding all sail the Pequod pressed after them; the harpooneers handling their weapons, and loudly cheering from the heads of their yet suspended boats. If the wind only held, little doubt had they, that chased through these Straits of Sunda, the vast host would only deploy into the Oriental seas to witness the capture of not a few of their number. And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese! So with stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along, driving these leviathans before us; when, of a sudden, the voice of Tashtego was heard, loudly directing attention to something in our wake.</div> </div>

Crowding All Sail The Pequod

But how now? in this zoned quest, does Ahab touch no land? does his crew drink air? Surely, he will stop for water. Nay. For a long time, ...

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The Other Plan Must be Carried Out

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmWF5EfX0DM8e7ihF-9QQAyEZxJHhUvK67zLbY5MO3_hg7AcKa-UrtJ5zti8fVDDYpo6FNPhWrPb3NL-En3C-zYI5V-Jt3hjwgNe7-Sk1_ZfiyEFuzh_uLiQmOAz_tvnVKuVt3Tq17Jch/s1600/ComputerDesktopWallpapersCollection369_030.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmWF5EfX0DM8e7ihF-9QQAyEZxJHhUvK67zLbY5MO3_hg7AcKa-UrtJ5zti8fVDDYpo6FNPhWrPb3NL-En3C-zYI5V-Jt3hjwgNe7-Sk1_ZfiyEFuzh_uLiQmOAz_tvnVKuVt3Tq17Jch/s320/ComputerDesktopWallpapersCollection369_030.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> The time seemed long; the guide ever and anon left them to take an observation on the edge of the wood, but the guards watched steadily by the glare of the torches, and a dim light crept through the windows of the pagoda.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> They waited till midnight; but no change took place among the guards, and it became apparent that their yielding to sleep could not be counted on. The other plan must be carried out; an opening in the walls of the pagoda must be made. It remained to ascertain whether the priests were watching by the side of their victim as assiduously as were the soldiers at the door.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> After a last consultation, the guide announced that he was ready for the attempt, and advanced, followed by the others. They took a roundabout way, so as to get at the pagoda on the rear. They reached the walls about half-past twelve, without having met anyone; here there was no guard, nor were there either windows or doors.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> The night was dark. The moon, on the wane, scarcely left the horizon, and was covered with heavy clouds; the height of the trees deepened the darkness.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> It was not enough to reach the walls; an opening in them must be accomplished, and to attain this purpose the party only had their pocket-knives. Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily.</div> </div>

The Other Plan Must be Carried Out

The time seemed long; the guide ever and anon left them to take an observation on the edge of the wood, but the guards watched steadily b...

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Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s1600/32+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s320/32+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="268" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.</div> <a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask. "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know."</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflf3TEoe9j6F-AU6KKQaDL9-qdsw5J-DixWwBmZRyXNaj0lC21wodhgUxscgWGUrwJ8-KS4OHhYowBHMs9qsa0FZjpFmAPuh9azPdnGNh3fRr5JHVeO-r2WJlKtgiOcTP4Zw2MMoKDqzs/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;"> I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.</blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.</div> </div>

Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and caps...

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Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s1600/32+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s320/32+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="268" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.</div> <a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask. "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know."</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflf3TEoe9j6F-AU6KKQaDL9-qdsw5J-DixWwBmZRyXNaj0lC21wodhgUxscgWGUrwJ8-KS4OHhYowBHMs9qsa0FZjpFmAPuh9azPdnGNh3fRr5JHVeO-r2WJlKtgiOcTP4Zw2MMoKDqzs/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;"> I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.</blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.</div> </div>

Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and caps...

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Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s1600/32+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s320/32+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="268" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.</div> <a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask. "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know."</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflf3TEoe9j6F-AU6KKQaDL9-qdsw5J-DixWwBmZRyXNaj0lC21wodhgUxscgWGUrwJ8-KS4OHhYowBHMs9qsa0FZjpFmAPuh9azPdnGNh3fRr5JHVeO-r2WJlKtgiOcTP4Zw2MMoKDqzs/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;"> I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.</blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.</div> </div>

Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and caps...

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Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s1600/32+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s320/32+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="268" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.</div> <a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask. "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know."</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflf3TEoe9j6F-AU6KKQaDL9-qdsw5J-DixWwBmZRyXNaj0lC21wodhgUxscgWGUrwJ8-KS4OHhYowBHMs9qsa0FZjpFmAPuh9azPdnGNh3fRr5JHVeO-r2WJlKtgiOcTP4Zw2MMoKDqzs/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;"> I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.</blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.</div> </div>

Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and caps...

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Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s1600/32+(2).jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLGsewf-LpokGnRg6gQ384tsdl9bR5HCLZLl-QIotB0qfrYUXRHGQ6zhJVMgPtRvomMnLWQPGITUKZrhHqcHEAogDGJOkAqYx3-fxHSd8ZoS3P-YMNRKBKsfrlRNUC_4_vgmve9TGw5Hc/s320/32+(2).jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="268" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.</div> <a class="right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: right; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizljf8Y_TuZvrorTsLh-KCNJsly8GJiyUMeERFoLP_zfmOH44te-k1jlZHpSzmrA_0VcjWr9kmaGqKhuMhIiGh8Th1bvJfdgxBYBHXzD2NfzyvO5qyjUb-QDpRvW4gfCzc74RufvlGowE/s1600/19.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> "I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask. "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other left, you know."</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflf3TEoe9j6F-AU6KKQaDL9-qdsw5J-DixWwBmZRyXNaj0lC21wodhgUxscgWGUrwJ8-KS4OHhYowBHMs9qsa0FZjpFmAPuh9azPdnGNh3fRr5JHVeO-r2WJlKtgiOcTP4Zw2MMoKDqzs/s1600/quotation-l.png); background-position: 0% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #777777; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 20px; padding-left: 40px;"> I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.</blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.</div> </div>

Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and caps...

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Forthwith Flashes of Actual Flame

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Flutter, flutter, went the flag, first to the right, then to the left. It was too far for me to recognise anyone there, but afterwards I learned that Ogilvy, Stent, and Henderson were with others in this attempt at communication. This little group had in its advance dragged inward, so to speak, the circumference of the now almost complete circle of people, and a number of dim black figures followed it at discreet distances.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Suddenly there was a flash of light, and a quantity of luminous greenish smoke came out of the pit in three distinct puffs, which drove up, one after the other, straight into the still air.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> This smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal. At the same time a faint hissing sound became audible.</div> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Hep2wIG2K9bKVHXbk6XF3z0liq_CMcG4EGNiTaMmVmiM3h-KL15oepIICC0OPquMS3Crhndj-6q9st94y3G5EMcyS_W7sG_zX48-ROW8iSbD8ar3NO1MrG8beWrqh9zdWDUltsyWRsk/s1600/thomas07-synthetic-bass.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Hep2wIG2K9bKVHXbk6XF3z0liq_CMcG4EGNiTaMmVmiM3h-KL15oepIICC0OPquMS3Crhndj-6q9st94y3G5EMcyS_W7sG_zX48-ROW8iSbD8ar3NO1MrG8beWrqh9zdWDUltsyWRsk/s320/thomas07-synthetic-bass.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. As the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. Slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. It was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. It was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Then, by the light of their own destruction, I saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. All I felt was that it was something very strange. An almost noiseless and blinding flash of light, and a man fell headlong and lay still; and as the unseen shaft of heat passed over them, pine trees burst into fire, and every dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames. And far away towards Knaphill I saw the flashes of trees and hedges and wooden buildings suddenly set alight.</div> </div>

Forthwith Flashes of Actual Flame

Flutter, flutter, went the flag, first to the right, then to the left. It was too far for me to recognise anyone there, but afterwards I l...

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The Fact that Barsoomian Architecture is Extremely Ornate

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a class="left" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YXqQrgQ-G75O8ZbgiVcD2NSe-4KjG3Om_251ndpvrWtnvYS2tDGMNAa9Gj6-QiETk6_30hJKWzovJ7BXWrWrIUVqOcm8Hv_Yr_SbMHnB8xzOM4fMlkC_O2OaQJUCMK0SABbt8j04c4bR/s1600/ComputerDesktopWallpapersCollection355_016.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YXqQrgQ-G75O8ZbgiVcD2NSe-4KjG3Om_251ndpvrWtnvYS2tDGMNAa9Gj6-QiETk6_30hJKWzovJ7BXWrWrIUVqOcm8Hv_Yr_SbMHnB8xzOM4fMlkC_O2OaQJUCMK0SABbt8j04c4bR/s320/ComputerDesktopWallpapersCollection355_016.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> It was a long climb up the face of the building, and one fraught with much danger, but there was no other way, and so I essayed the task. The fact that Barsoomian architecture is extremely ornate made the feat much simpler than I had anticipated, since I found ornamental ledges and projections which fairly formed a perfect ladder for me all the way to the eaves of the building. Here I met my first real obstacle. The eaves projected nearly twenty feet from the wall to which I clung, and though I encircled the great building I could find no opening through them.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> The top floor was alight, and filled with soldiers engaged in the pastimes of their kind; I could not, therefore, reach the roof through the building.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take—it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> Clinging to the wall with my feet and one hand, I unloosened one of the long leather straps of my trappings at the end of which dangled a great hook by which air sailors are hung to the sides and bottoms of their craft for various purposes of repair, and by means of which landing parties are lowered to the ground from the battleships.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> I swung this hook cautiously to the roof several times before it finally found lodgment; gently I pulled on it to strengthen its hold, but whether it would bear the weight of my body I did not know. It might be barely caught upon the very outer verge of the roof, so that as my body swung out at the end of the strap it would slip off and launch me to the pavement a thousand feet below.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> An instant I hesitated, and then, releasing my grasp upon the supporting ornament, I swung out into space at the end of the strap. Far below me lay the brilliantly lighted streets, the hard pavements, and death. There was a little jerk at the top of the supporting eaves, and a nasty slipping, grating sound which turned me cold with apprehension; then the hook caught and I was safe.</div> </div>

The Fact that Barsoomian Architecture is Extremely Ornate

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Dire and Thus Wolf Much Outdid Fruitful and Jeez

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This Is The Second Test Post

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This Would Be Your First Test Post

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This Would Be Your First Test Post

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