
Moby Dick - Chapters 42 and 43
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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The Sea of Whiteness
"It was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me, second to the native on of peru. The continual sight of the snow, howahead andes, conveys naught of dread, except perhaps in the mere fancying of the eternal, frosted desolateness reigning at such vast altitudes," he said. "But thou sayest methinks that white lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul?" He went on: 'I never rests till blue water is under him again'
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