...maw ; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed—while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to...brow. ' That lively cry upon this deadly calm might almosc convert a better man.—Where away ?' ' Three points on the starboard bow, sir, and bringing...

...maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed — while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to...planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllabic is thine!" "Sail ho!" cried a triumphant voice from the main-masthead. "Aye? Well, now, that's...

...asks the head to share the secrets of the sea deaths it has witnessed. "O head!" Ahab apostrophizes, "Thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham." Study Questions 1. How is blubber removed from the whale? 2. Why is the word "blanket" an appropriate...

...head of a dead whale one night, Ahab implores it to speak: "Speak, thou vast and venerable head. . . . O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of 86. Kileen Simpson, Orphans: Real and Imaginary (New York: New American Library, 1987), 181-82. 42...

...blackened ruins? Was not Melville right to have allowed Captain Ahab to declaim to Moby Dick: "Thou has seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham and not one syllable is thine." By mid-November the trees were shorn. By early December frost arrived. At the break of each day, Father...

...head," commands the captain, though the head is as speechless as the cosmopolitan third-world crew. "O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets...infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine" (417-418). The pseudoscience fails as hermeneutic in Moby-Dick but thereby proves consistent with Melville's...

...deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world's foundations. . . O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets...infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!" Ahab's soliloquy suggests that knowledge of the universe leads to a state of non-believing, or a state...

...maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed — while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to...infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!" (MD 1126-27) The logic here, more a web of passionate associations than a set of strict inferences,...

...hanging at the side of his ship: "Speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. . . . thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!"76 Even Colonel Sturgis followed his pronouncement with a modest attempt to articulate what...

...insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmedwhile swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to...cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-head. "Three points on the starboard bow, sir, and bringing down her breeze to us! "Better and better, man....