Ishmael's Monologue From Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
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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 the shore. I thought I would 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 uh circulation. Yeah. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it's a damp, drizzly november in my soul, whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses and bringing up the rear, every funeral I meet, and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand on 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 account, it is high time to get to the sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol in a ball. With a philosophical flourish, Cato throws himself upon his sword. I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this if they but knew almost all men in their degrees sometime or another cherished very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me