I download Moby Dick Ch 1, and I tried to do an auto summary to it by Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, Microsoft had moved this feature from Office 2010, which I have on my computer. Therefore, I did the summary with 2 websites.
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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
methodically knocking people's hats off- then, I account it high time to get to
sea as soon as I can. and this is the key to it all.
Now, when I
say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about
the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it
inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. and so the universal thump is
passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be
content.
Again, I
always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my
trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant
sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage;
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN."
Though I
cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me
down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for
magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel
comedies, and jolly parts in farces- though I cannot tell why this was exactly;
Moby Dick; or The Whale Chapter 1 summary by http://www.tools4noobs.com/summarize/
Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of
miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies- what is the one charm wanting?-
Water- there is not a drop of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand,
would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee,
upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a
coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to
Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy
soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first
voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when
first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the
old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity,
and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.
doesn't really work for novels/stories, works much better with non-fiction textbooks.
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