
Moby Dick - Chapters 57, 58 and 59
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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The Masterless Ocean Overruns the Earth
Noah's flood is not yet subsided. Two thirds of the fair world it yet covers, wherein differ the sea in the land that a miracle upon one is not a miracle upon the other. When under the feet of kora and his company, the live ground opened and swallowed them up forever. Yet not a modern sun ever sets. But in precisely the same manner, the live sea swallows up ships and crews. The masterless ocean overruns the globe. That same ocean rolls. Thatsame ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year. Yea foolish mortals. God, keep thee. Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return.
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