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Moby-Dick
or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
Ishmael: Ishmael is the narrator of this story. He joins the Pequod's crew because he needs money and wants to gain the knowledge and experience that comes from the whale fishery. He is not a major character in the main events of the voyage, yet he supplies a lot of philosophy and information on whales.
Memorable Quotes by Ishmael:
“Call me Ishmael.”
“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken christian”
“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.”
“(...)For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.”
“It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be thinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.”
“It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciusness. Of, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale retaing , O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.”
“They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance”
“Who ain't a slave? tell me that.”
“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.”
“All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.”
“On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.”
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Ishmael: smallest, youngest terrorist, the Vice President especially likes him, takes up chess by just watching it played
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The Bible Unearthed
Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
by Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein
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Gleanings in Genesis
by Arthur W. Pink
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Created to Be God's Friend Workbook (Biblical Legacy (Paperback))
by Henry Blackaby
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Ishmael
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: A telepathic gorilla who is a teacher.
Memorable Quotes by Ishmael:
“The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.”
“I think what you’re groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be madeto feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the worldand of themselves that inspires them.”
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The Daily Message Hardback: Through the Bible in One Year
by Eugene H. Peterson
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CliffsNotes This book is based on Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.CliffsNotes on Melville's Moby-Dick
by James L. Roberts
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This book is based on The Bible (New International Version) by Zondervan.Women's Devotional Bible (New International Version)
by New York Bible Society
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Catholic Women's Devotional Bible
by Ann Spangler
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This book is based on The Bible (New International Version) by Zondervan.Life Application Study Bible NIV
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