MOBY DICK
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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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'd sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It's 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 and 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 moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off. Then I accounted high time to get to see as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and 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 to their degree sometime, or other cherish. Very nearly the same feelings toward the ocean with me