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<h1>
CHAPTER 1
</h1>
<h3>
Loomings
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<hr />
<p>
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. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the
circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever
it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself
involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of
every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper
hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from
deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's
hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This
is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato
throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing
surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree,
some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean
with me.
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<p>
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves
as Indian isles by coral reefs- commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right
and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the
battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes,
which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of
water-gazers there.
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<img src="demo/mobydick-world.png" alt="Cluster of locations mentioned in Moby Dick" />
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Locations mentioned in <u>Moby Dick</u> |
Source: <a href="http://graus.nu/blog/geomapping-books/">David Graus</a>
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<p>
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears
Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do
you see?- Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands
upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against
the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks
of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get
a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent
up in lath and plaster- tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to
desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?
</p>
<p>
But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and
seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the
extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder
warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as
they possibly can without falling And there they stand- miles of them-
leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets avenues-
north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the
magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract
them thither?
</p>
<p>
Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take
almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale,
and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the
most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries- stand that
man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to
water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in
the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to
be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows,
meditation and water are wedded for ever.
</p>
<p>
But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest,
quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of
the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees, each
with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here
sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage
goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching
to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But
though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down
its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless
the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go visit
the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep
among Tiger-lilies- what is the one charm wanting?- Water- there is not a
drop of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel
your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon
suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a
coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to
Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust
healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? 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? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give
it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not
without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus,
who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the
fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we
ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable
phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
</p>
<p>
Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to
grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do
not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. For to
go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag
unless you have something in it. Besides, passengers get sea-sick- grow
quarrelsome- don't sleep of nights- do not enjoy themselves much, as a
general thing;- no, I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something
of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook. I
abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.
For my part, I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and
tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to
take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs,
schooners, and what not. And as for going as cook,- though I confess there
is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on
ship-board- yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls;- though once
broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there
is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a
broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old
Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the
mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.
</p>
<p>
No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb
down into the fore-castle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they
rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a
grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant
enough. It touches one's sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old
established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or
Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into
the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the
tallest boys stand in awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure
you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of
Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this
wears off in time.
</p>
<p>
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and
sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean,
in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel
thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey
that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain't a slave? Tell me
that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about- however
they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that
it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the
same way- either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and
so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each
other's shoulder-blades, and be content.
</p>
<p>
Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying
me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I
ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there
is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act
of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard
thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,- what will compare with it? The
urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous,
considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all
earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how
cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
</p>
<p>
Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise
and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world, head winds are
far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate
the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the
quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the
forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In much the same
way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same
time that the leaders little suspect it. But wherefore it was that after
having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it
into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer
of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs
me, and influences me in some unaccountable way- he can better answer than
any one else. And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part
of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It
came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive
performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something
like this:
</p>
<p>
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.<br />
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL."<br />
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN."
</p>
<p>
Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the
Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others
were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy
parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces- though I cannot tell
why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, 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.
</p>
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Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/72093892@N00/5101450190/">aftab.</a>
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<p>
Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale
himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.
Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the
undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending
marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my
wish. With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements;
but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I
love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. 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.
</p>
<p>
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.
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