
Moby Dick - Chapters 17 and 18
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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Queequeg's Dyspepsia
Queequeg said hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling, and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by romadons. Besides, argued, i, fasting makes the body cave in, hence the spirit caves in. And all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half starved. This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters. For i knew the inferences without his further hinting them. I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the
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