 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.  Melville's Bibles - Page 74by Ilana Pardes - 2008 - 206 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...JAWS, LIKE ENOUMOUS 8HEAKS, BIT THE CRAFT COMPLETELY IN TWALN " 510 MOBY DICK. CHAPTER I. LOOMINGS. CALL me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how...watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving oft the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth... | |
 | Meade Minnigerode, Herman Melville - 1922 - 238 pages
...Street, New York City, August i, 1819. Died, 104 East a6th Street, New York City, September 28, 1891. "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how...driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. ..." Moby-Dick. CONTENTS PART I SOME PERSONAL LETTERS Introduction to the Letters .... 3 I. A Man's... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1926 - 836 pages
...face of the earth. He became "Ishmael." He liked the name. "Call me Ishmael," he wrote in Moby Dick. "Some years ago — never mind how long precisely...driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. . . ." The nature of the thoughts that filled Melville's mind as he was preparing to leave on his first... | |
 | Orson Welles - 1965 - 84 pages
...sits nearby, listening as he reads aloud: Some years ago — never mind how long — I thought that I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Whenever I grow grim about the mouth, and hazy in eyes; whenever it's a damp November in my soul; I... | |
 | Charles Mabee - 1985 - 182 pages
...dislocation. In this regard the sentence following Moby-Dick's opening line, "Call me Ishmael," runs: Some years ago — never mind how long precisely —...about a little and see the watery part of the world (italics added). It is the movement from shore to sea that propels the narrative — not time. Time... | |
 | Biyot Kesh Tripathy - 1985 - 300 pages
..."directly at the centre of the stage. "15 Destitute and anchorless at the beginning of the narrative - "having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore" (p. 93), his shoes worn out of treading the "asphal tic pavement; " "from hard, remorseless service... | |
 | Ray Bradbury - 1986 - 102 pages
...Ishmael!" ARISTOTLE. A former customs inspector who found a kinship with a seagoing whaleman... MELVILLE. "Having little or no money in my purse, and nothing...driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation." ALL (overlapping). "...and regulating the circulation. (General laughter.) ARISTOTLE. All the single,... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - 1986 - 196 pages
...nothing more momentous than a personal whim. "Having little or no money in my purse," he tells us, "and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I...about a little and see the watery part of the world" (Chap. 1). This selfdeprecating humor, beneath which lurks a notably somber temperament, bespeaks the... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 pages
...Moby-Dick Chap ter i Learnings CALL me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular...watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving or] the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;... | |
 | Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1072 pages
...boundless sea." Moby-Dick Chapter i Learnings CALL me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how Jong precisely — having little or no money in my purse,...and see the watery part of the world. It is a way 1 have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim... | |
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