"Moby Dick"

This is a funnier book than I expected as well.

• "... maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
• Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
• chaos bewitched /  the icebound stream of Time
• The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
• Their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador
• For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
• Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk sleeping by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby.
• But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition state— neither caterpillar nor butterfly. He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manner. His education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate.
• Let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way.
• Every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
• As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, they look so bony.
• In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
• In Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.

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