Starbuck and Stubb Are the Opposite Poles of One Thing.

Ahab, now aloft and motionless, anon unrestingly pacing the planks as he was thus walking. He passed his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped upon the quarter deck and lay there reversed, broken bow to shattered stern. And perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude, he advanced. The ass refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly. 'What soulless thing is this, that laughs before a wreck? Man, man, did i not know thee brave as a fearless fire and as mechanical'