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" Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. "
Moby Dick - Page 7
by Herman Melville - 1892 - 545 pages
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moby-dick or the whale

herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...Song. CHAPTER I. LOOMINGS. CA.LL me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular...watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth...
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Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography

Meade Minnigerode, Herman Melville - Novelists, American - 1922 - 238 pages
...Street, New York City, August i, 1819. Died, 104 East a6th Street, New York City, September 28, 1891. "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how...watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. ..." Moby-Dick. CONTENTS PART I SOME PERSONAL LETTERS...
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The Open Court, Volume 40

Paul Carus - Religion - 1926 - 836 pages
...face of the earth. He became "Ishmael." He liked the name. "Call me Ishmael," he wrote in Moby Dick. "Some years ago — never mind how long precisely...watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. . . ." The nature of the thoughts that filled Melville's...
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Moby Dick Rehearsed

Orson Welles - Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) - 1965 - 84 pages
...sits nearby, listening as he reads aloud: Some years ago — never mind how long — I thought that I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Whenever I grow grim about the mouth, and hazy in eyes; whenever it's a damp November in my soul; I...
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Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (LOA #9)

Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...ocean home will be A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless sea." Whale Song. Chapter i LOOMINGS CALL ME ISHMAEL. Some years ago...watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;...
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Reimagining America: A Theological Critique of the American Mythos and ...

Charles Mabee - Philosophy - 1985 - 182 pages
...dislocation. In this regard the sentence following Moby-Dick's opening line, "Call me Ishmael," runs: Some years ago — never mind how long precisely —...about a little and see the watery part of the world (italics added). It is the movement from shore to sea that propels the narrative — not time. Time...
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Osiris N.: The Victim and the American Novel

Biyot Kesh Tripathy - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 300 pages
..."directly at the centre of the stage. "15 Destitute and anchorless at the beginning of the narrative - "having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore" (p. 93), his shoes worn out of treading the "asphal tic pavement; " "from hard, remorseless service...
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Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901

Sharon M. Harris, Associate Professor of English Sharon M Harris, Professor - American fiction - 1995 - 232 pages
...her being female. Her need to leave the farm is not so different from Ishmael's need in Moby Dick to "sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville, through Ishmael, asserts, "If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some...
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A TEX Primer for Scientists

Stanley A. Sawyer, Steven G. Krantz - Mathematics - 1994 - 420 pages
...\linadjp{80}\smallrm} at the top of your source file. Then $$ \vbox{ \advance\hsize-3\parindent \vskip4pt \smfonts Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely having \df {little} or no \df {money} \rightline{Herman Melville, \sl Moby Dick}} $$ is typeset correctly...
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Pedagogy, Praxis, Ulysses: Using Joyce's Text to Transform the Classroom

Robert D. Newman - Education - 1996 - 288 pages
...specific psychological detail: Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular...watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;...
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