Extract from, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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call me Ishmael some years ago. Never mind how long, Precisely having little or no money in my purse and nothing particular to interest me on shore. I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, whenever I find myself in voluntarily pausing before coffin warehouses on bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me that it requires a strong mental moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off. Then I account it high time to get to see as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol on ball. With a philosophical flourish, Kato throws himself upon his sword. I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it. Almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your incident City off the man Atos, belted around by wars as Indian Isles, my coral reefs commerce surrounds it with her serf right and left the streets. Take your water would. It's extreme. Downtown is the battery where the noble, where that noble mole is washed by waves and called by breezes which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds or water geysers there.