Introduction

There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial desperado philosophy. And with it, i now regarded this whole voyage of the pequod and the great white whale, its object, quee queg. Chapter forty nine, the hyenathere are certain queer times and occasions in this strange, mixed affair we call life. When a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof, he but dimly discerns and more than suspects, that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.