Moby Dick
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) US African AmericanTranscript
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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 involuntarily pausing before coughing warehouses and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet. And especially when 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 a high time to get to see as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball with the philosophical flourish. Cato 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.