Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language, heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.

"... Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.... Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

The NYTimes reports that a collection of Vonnegut previously unpublished stories will be released as an ebook: Article.

'Who's there?' Oh! how that harmless question mangles Jonah!

"... but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners.... It makes a stranger stare." Move over, werewolves of London.

To get a head start for our reading of Moby Dick, I'll be posting short quotations and an occasional comment. Here's the latest I've highlighted today in my edition: "But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me. It's dangerous. Besides, I ain't insured." (Ishmael - Ch. 3)