Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one.

 

[Old Thunder]

It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of George Washington's head, as seen in the popular busts of him.

 

[Old Thunder]

It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top.

 

[Old Thunder]

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

 

[Old Thunder]

Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book.

 

[Old Thunder]

Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference of his very strange.

 

[Old Thunder]

But savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them.

 

[Old Thunder]

At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socractic wisdom.

 

[Old Thunder]

I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn.

 

[Old Thunder]

He made no advances whatever; appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.