 | Herman Melville - Adventure stories - 1892 - 576 pages
...ENOUMOUS 8HEAKS, BIT THE CRAFT COMPLETELY IN TWALN " 510 MOBY DICK. CHAPTER I. LOOMINGS. CALL me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely —...about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving oft the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself... | |
 | 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...about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself... | |
 | Meade Minnigerode, Herman Melville - Novelists, American - 1922 - 238 pages
...City, August i, 1819. Died, 104 East a6th Street, New York City, September 28, 1891. "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely —...about a little, and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. ..." Moby-Dick. CONTENTS... | |
 | 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...about a little, and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. . . ." The nature of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...where might is right, And King of the boundless sea." Whale Song. Chapter i LOOMINGS CALL ME ISHMAEL. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely —...about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1996 - 644 pages
...boundless sea." WHALE SONG. Chapter 1 Loomings all me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long V_x precisely — having little or no money in my purse,...about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself... | |
 | 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...about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself... | |
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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. 
