Moby Dick

[CensoredAlso]

I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

Sounds like progress!

 

[Old Thunder]

Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it -- would they let me -- since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.

 

[Old Thunder]

By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome, the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and, in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

 

[Censored]

Ok, I'll admit that he's posting a little bit more from Moby Dick than I thought he would. But it definitely won't be the whole thing. There's just no way.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Ok, I'll admit that he's posting a little bit more from Moby Dick than I thought he would. But it definitely won't be the whole thing. There's just no way.

Honestly.... I'm starting to think otherwise.

 

[Pig'sSaysAdios]

Don't encourage him!

 

[Old Thunder]

CHAPTER II.
The Carpet-Bag.​

I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific.

 

[Old Thunder]

Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.

So long, Manhatto!

 

[Old Thunder]

It was on a Saturday night in December.