
Moby Dick - Chapters 91 and 92
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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How to Cure Dyspepsia in the Whale?
Some ambergriss is supposed to be the cause, and by others, the effect of the dyspepsia in the whale. Some wine merchants drop a few grains into claret to flavor it. Would think that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale. I opine that it is plainly traceable to the first arrival of the greenland whaling ships in london more than two centuries ago. But there is another thing to rebut they hint that all whales always smell bad.
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