Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?

 

[Old Thunder]

Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, whic he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?

 

[D'Snowth]

Of course not. He's just going to post a few pages as a joke, not the whole thing. You'll see.

I actually think he's capable of pulling it off. It'd take a while, but I can see him pulling it off.

 

[Old Thunder]

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

Btw, in case anyone missed it the first time

Moby Dick is not garbage, ma'am.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Moby Dick is not garbage, ma'am.

No, of course not. It's a bit fishy but...

 

[Old Thunder]

Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land.

 

[Old Thunder]

Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy?

 

[Old Thunder]

Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity,* and own brother of Jove.

*Poseidon.

 

[Old Thunder]

Surely all this is not without meaning.

 

[Old Thunder]

And still deeper the store of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.