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Moby Dick (or The Whale)
CHAPTER 37 Sunset.
Herman Melville
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       _ THE CABIN; BY THE STERN WINDOWS; AHAB SITTING ALONE, AND GAZING OUT.
       I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er
       I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let
       them; but first I pass.
       Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like
       wine. The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun--slow dived from
       noon--goes down; my soul mounts up! she wearies with her endless
       hill. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of
       Lombardy. Yet is it bright with many a gem; I the wearer, see not
       its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzlingly
       confounds. 'Tis iron--that I know--not gold. 'Tis split, too--that
       I feel; the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against
       the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs no
       helmet in the most brain-battering fight!
       Dry heat upon my brow? Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly
       spurred me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it
       lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er
       enjoy. Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying
       power; damned, most subtly and most malignantly! damned in the midst
       of Paradise! Good night--good night! (WAVING HIS HAND, HE MOVES FROM
       THE WINDOW.)
       'Twas not so hard a task. I thought to find one stubborn, at the
       least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels,
       and they revolve. Or, if you will, like so many ant-hills of powder,
       they all stand before me; and I their match. Oh, hard! that to fire
       others, the match itself must needs be wasting! What I've dared,
       I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do! They think me
       mad--Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That
       wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! The prophecy was
       that I should be dismembered; and--Aye! I lost this leg. I now
       prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. Now, then, be the
       prophet and the fulfiller one. That's more than ye, ye great gods,
       ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists,
       ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will not say as schoolboys
       do to bullies--Take some one of your own size; don't pommel ME! No,
       ye've knocked me down, and I am up again; but YE have run and hidden.
       Come forth from behind your cotton bags! I have no long gun to
       reach ye. Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see if ye can
       swerve me. Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve
       yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed
       purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
       Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under
       torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an
       angle to the iron way! _
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Etymology
Abstract
CHAPTER 1 Loomings.
CHAPTER 2 The Carpet-Bag.
CHAPTER 3 The Spouter-Inn.
CHAPTER 4 The Counterpane.
CHAPTER 5 Breakfast
CHAPTER 6 The Street.
CHAPTER 7 The Chapel.
CHAPTER 8 The Pulpit.
CHAPTER 9 The Sermon.
CHAPTER 10 A Bosom Friend.
CHAPTER 11 Nightgown.
CHAPTER 12 Biographical.
CHAPTER 13 Wheelbarrow.
CHAPTER 14 Nantucket.
CHAPTER 15 Chowder.
CHAPTER 16 The Ship.
CHAPTER 17 The Ramadan.
CHAPTER 18 His Mark.
CHAPTER 19 The Prophet.
CHAPTER 20 All Astir.
CHAPTER 21 Going Aboard.
CHAPTER 22 Merry Christmas.
CHAPTER 23 The Lee Shore.
CHAPTER 24 The Advocate.
CHAPTER 25 Postscript.
CHAPTER 26 Knights and Squires.
CHAPTER 27 Knights and Squires.
CHAPTER 28 Ahab.
CHAPTER 29 Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
CHAPTER 30 The Pipe.
CHAPTER 31 Queen Mab.
CHAPTER 32 Cetology.
CHAPTER 33 The Specksynder.
CHAPTER 34 The Cabin-Table.
CHAPTER 35 The Mast-Head.
CHAPTER 36 The Quarter-Deck.
CHAPTER 37 Sunset.
CHAPTER 38 Dusk.
CHAPTER 39 First Night Watch.
CHAPTER 40 Midnight, Forecastle.
CHAPTER 41 Moby Dick.
CHAPTER 42 The Whiteness of The Whale.
CHAPTER 43 Hark!
CHAPTER 44 The Chart.
CHAPTER 45 The Affidavit.
CHAPTER 46 Surmises.
CHAPTER 47 The Mat-Maker.
CHAPTER 48 The First Lowering.
CHAPTER 49 The Hyena.
CHAPTER 50 Ahab's Boat and Crew.
CHAPTER 51 The Spirit-Spout.
CHAPTER 52 The Albatross.
CHAPTER 53 The Gam.
CHAPTER 54 The Town-Ho's Story.
CHAPTER 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
CHAPTER 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes.
CHAPTER 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars.
CHAPTER 58 Brit.
CHAPTER 59 Squid.
CHAPTER 60 The Line.
CHAPTER 61 Stubb Kills a Whale.
CHAPTER 62 The Dart.
CHAPTER 63 The Crotch.
CHAPTER 64 Stubb's Supper.
CHAPTER 65 The Whale as a Dish.
CHAPTER 66 The Shark Massacre.
CHAPTER 67 Cutting In.
CHAPTER 68 The Blanket.
CHAPTER 69 The Funeral.
CHAPTER 70 The Sphynx.
CHAPTER 71 The Jeroboam's Story.
CHAPTER 72 The Monkey-Rope.
CHAPTER 73 Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him.
CHAPTER 74 The Sperm Whale's Head--Contrasted View.
CHAPTER 75 The Right Whale's Head--Contrasted View.
CHAPTER 76 The Battering-Ram.
CHAPTER 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
CHAPTER 78 Cistern and Buckets.
CHAPTER 79 The Prairie.
CHAPTER 80 The Nut.
CHAPTER 81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
CHAPTER 82 The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
CHAPTER 83 Jonah Historically Regarded.
CHAPTER 84 Pitchpoling.
CHAPTER 85 The Fountain.
CHAPTER 86 The Tail.
CHAPTER 87 The Grand Armada.
CHAPTER 88 Schools and Schoolmasters.
CHAPTER 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
CHAPTER 90 Heads or Tails.
CHAPTER 91 The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
CHAPTER 92 Ambergris.
CHAPTER 93 The Castaway.
CHAPTER 94 A Squeeze of the Hand.
CHAPTER 95 The Cassock.
CHAPTER 96 The Try-Works.
CHAPTER 97 The Lamp.
CHAPTER 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
CHAPTER 99 The Doubloon.
CHAPTER 100 Leg and Arm.
CHAPTER 101 The Decanter.
CHAPTER 102 A Bower in the Arsacides.
CHAPTER 103 Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
CHAPTER 104 The Fossil Whale.
CHAPTER 105 Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?--Will He Perish?
CHAPTER 106 Ahab's Leg.
CHAPTER 107 The Carpenter.
CHAPTER 108 Ahab and the Carpenter.
CHAPTER 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.
CHAPTER 110 Queequeg in His Coffin.
CHAPTER 111 The Pacific.
CHAPTER 112 The Blacksmith.
CHAPTER 113 The Forge.
CHAPTER 114 The Gilder.
CHAPTER 115 The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
CHAPTER 116 The Dying Whale.
CHAPTER 117 The Whale Watch.
CHAPTER 118 The Quadrant.
CHAPTER 119 The Candles.
CHAPTER 120 The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.
CHAPTER 121 Midnight.--The Forecastle Bulwarks.
CHAPTER 122 Midnight Aloft.--Thunder and Lightning
CHAPTER 123 The Musket.
CHAPTER 124 The Needle.
CHAPTER 125 The Log and Line.
CHAPTER 126 The Life-Buoy.
CHAPTER 127 The Deck.
CHAPTER 128 The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
CHAPTER 129 The Cabin.
CHAPTER 130 The Hat.
CHAPTER 131 The Pequod Meets The Delight.
CHAPTER 132 The Symphony.
CHAPTER 133 The Chase--First Day.
CHAPTER 134 The Chase--Second Day.
CHAPTER 135 The Chase.--Third Day.
Epilogue - "AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE"