Chapter 32 (Cetology)
Ishmael's mock-systematic classification of whales by 'book' size, ending: 'God keep me from ever completing anything.'
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From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The encyclopedic whale-chapters ask whether nature can be known, classified, or truly seen—and finally insist it cannot.
Chapter 86 (The Tail)
Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.Read in Books4Free →
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