Moby Dick lines

Besides, passengers get sea-sick.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it. (Ivy)

True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar. Like a grasshopper in a May meadow.

Aloft there to the royal mast-head! (Ezra)

I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this.

It came in as sort of a brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. (Nora)

Endless processions of the whale.

There floated into my inmost soul. (Ashley)

As emperors own empires.

The sea is theirs. They own it. (Ezra)

By the way, the Medes were the earliest inhabitants of Persia.

Additionally, in case you don’t remember your history, Pequod was also a the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians. A tribe now extinct as the ancient Medes. (Ivy)

And the Pequod was as good a ship as any.

And I would. (Will)

Take it I say. It is not me.

In fact, take my body who will. (Izzy)

No one!

But nothing! (Nora)

Foreboding shivers ran over me.

So soon as I leveled my glance towards the taffrail. (Max)

Sir! The men are trying to sleep below. Would you mind treading a bit more softly? Or perhaps you could find something to pad that peg of yours?

Scene 4: Ahab (Ezra) walks the deck.

I’m not used to being spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half like it.

Am I a cannon-ball, Stubb, that thou wouldst wad me that fashion. Below to thy nightly grave. Down, dog, and kennel! (Ezra)

No, sir; not yet. I will not tamely be called a dog, sir.

Avast! (Ezra)

I was never served so before without giving a hard blow for it. It’s queer, and he’s queer too; aye, take him fore and aft, he’s about the queerest old man I ever sailed with. D’ye mark him, Starbuck? There’s something on his mind, that’s sure—as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or I’ll clear the world of thee. (Ezra)

Aye, sir?

God bless ye. God bless ye, men. Mr Stubb? (Ezra)

Aye, aye, Captain.

Go draw the great measure of grog. (Ezra)

My shouts had gone up with the rest.

I was one of that crew. (Will)

Lower away, men.

Look at the size of him. (Max)

Look out!

It’s just a whale. (Max)

All the subtle demonisms of life and thought.

All that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain. (Ezra)

Every night the charts were brought out.

It was not only this one night in particular that, in the solitude of his cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts. (Siena)

It was around this time that I had my first turn at watch on the mast-head. In the North Atlantic winter, when we first set out, this was not a pleasant task. But we were headed south, and in the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man, it is downright delightful.

Moby-Dick, Moby-Dick, Moby-Dick…(Ivy) Monologue part one

There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you swim the hugest monsters of the sea. There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.

Moby-Dick, Moby-Dick, Moby-Dick…(Ivy) Monologue part two

Three!

Two! (Kati)

There she blows! She blows!

Now, a fully oxygenated whale could stay submerged for up to 90 minutes. However, it then takes the whale a full fifteen minutes of rest to fill back up with oxygen. This is what allows Man to hunt the whale. (Kati)

No easy task.

Then there was the butchering of the whale. (Izzy)

He knew all the tides

Ahab had spent his life upon the sea. (Kati)

It was at that particular time and place, that all possibilities would become probabilities.

Now, where Ahab's chances of accomplishing his object have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to whatever way-side prospects were his, ere a particular set time and place was attained. (Ezra)

Up Burtons and break out?

Captain Ahab mistakes. It is I. Starbuck. The oil in the hold is leaking, Sir. We must up Burtons and break out. (Max)

Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck, about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience.

Owners? (Siena)

Await the Season-on-the-Line.

‘Tis not yet time. (Ashley)

Find me that leak.

Up Burtons, and break out in the main-hold! (Siena)