Old man telling a story
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)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 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's damp and drizzly november in my soul. Whenever I find myself involuntarily 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 counted high time to get to see as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol in ball. With a philosophical flourish, Cato throws himself upon his sword, I take to the ship there's nothing surprising in this, but if they knew it, almost all men in their degree sometime, or other cherish nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me
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Grandfather, Grumpy Old Man, Professor, Scientist, Wizard, Aloof, Casual, Laid Back, Narrator