Moby Dick

[LittleJerry92]

@Froggy Fool

Guess what's baaaack.

 

[Old Thunder]

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

 

[Old Thunder]

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.

 

[Old Thunder]

In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

 

[Old Thunder]

And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

 

[fuzzygobo]

Thank you again, Great Thunder, for more literary splendor.
May you always have a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

 

[Old Thunder]

CHAPTER VIII.
The Pulpit.
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I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that his fine old man was the chaplain.

 

[Old Thunder]

Yes, it was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen among whom he was a very great favourite.

 

[Old Thunder]

He had been a sailor and a harpooner in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.

 

[Old Thunder]

At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom -- the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.