Moby Dick Introduction Read - Young Adult Female Audiobook Read
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn)Transcript
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Call me Ishmael some years ago. Never mind how long precisely having little to no money in my purse and nothing in 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 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 my thought, knocking people's hats off. Then I account at high time to get to sea 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 there. Now is your insular city of Manhattan's belted round by wharves as Indian Isles by coral reefs. Commerce surrounds it with her surf, right and left the streets. Take you water. Its extreme downtown is the Battery where that Noble Mole is washed by waves and cooled by breezes which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water gazers there.