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Herman Melville
 
Moby Dick
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
So am I going to die on the ocean?
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
We're not going to stop.
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
Make me a coffin. I am going to die.
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
Will I die before I kill the white whale?
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
I'm not going to lose a day's sailing because of some barrels.
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
Are you sailing with Captain Ahab?
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
They hope that they'll see our sails one day. #bookmark
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○○○ #grammar ⪢⪢
Will I die on this trip?
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○○○ and ⪢⪢
We looked last night and this morning but we couldn't find him.
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And there he was.
#listening
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○○○ ask ⪢⪢
"And who are you?" I asked. "I'm Elijah," he answered.
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○○○ away ⪢⪢
But we put his coffin away, down with the barrels of oil, and went to work.
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○○○ cannibal ⪢⪢
He's sold the other four already and now he's trying to sell the fifth. Maybe he's a cannibal. I don't know but he pays on time and that's all I care about.
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Captain Ahab
#listening
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○○○ chapel ⪢⪢
Almost every sailor visits the Whaleman's Chapel before sailing.
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○○○ Daggoo ⪢⪢
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○○○ decent ⪢⪢
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○○○ dignify ⪢⪢
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○○○ doomed ⪢⪢
There's no turning back now but that ship is doomed.
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○○○ Elijah ⪢⪢
I turned around and asked, "But who are you?" "I'm Elijah!" he said.
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○○○ every ⪢⪢
Every whaler was excited.
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○○○ Flask ⪢⪢
Flask, a short robust young man from Martha's Vineyard, was _____ third mate.
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○○○ from ⪢⪢
There were harpoons in his body from his many fights with whalers.
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○○○ from ⪢⪢
Its wood was dark from many years on the wild oceans.
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○○○ get ⪢⪢
"Get the whale! Bring the Pequod," shouted Captain Ahap.
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○○○ go ⪢⪢
Did it go down to his feet?
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○○○ go down ⪢⪢
When a shop goes down, it takes the water with it.
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○○○ grim ⪢⪢
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○○○ hard ⪢⪢
He had a hard face with lines on it from years of sun and wind.
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○○○ He is out there in the ocean. ⪢⪢
But he is here too in my dreams, always in my dreams. He will never leave me. He is whiter than the first beautiful snow in winter, whiter than the stars in the sky on a warm summer's night. But he brings only death. He is Moby Dick. #quote
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○○○ he's sleeping ⪢⪢
This man wants a bed for tonight. He is sleeping here.
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○○○ help ⪢⪢
Will you help us look for the boat, Captain?
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○○○ hold ⪢⪢
Haven't you seen the demons he keeps in the hold of the ship?
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○○○ hope ⪢⪢
I _____ , for you and for your men, that you never find Moby Dick.
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○○○ I'll ⪢⪢
Don't leave this boat or _____ throw a harpoon at you. #bookmark
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In front of us was Fedallah
#listening
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○○○ individual ⪢⪢
He was a quiet individual who faced dangers calmly.
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○○○ Ishmael ⪢⪢
Call me Ishmael.
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○○○ Kokovoko ⪢⪢
He came from Kokovoco, a long way away in the Pacific Ocean.
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○○○ Kokovoko ⪢⪢
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○○○ leave ⪢⪢
I married my dear wife and the next day I left on a whaling ship for three years.
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○○○ leave ⪢⪢
What did they leave behind them when they went on the whaling ships?
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○○○ light ⪢⪢
Captain Ahab's face lit up. He was happy.
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Listen. Tell people at home.
#listening
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○○○ livelihood ⪢⪢
So when a ship like the Pequod went off to sea, the voyage had to be a success because the livelihood of many people depended on it.
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○○○ lock ⪢⪢
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○○○ lose ⪢⪢
What fight did he lose so badly?
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○○○ mercy ⪢⪢
God have mercy on you.
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My Story Begins
#listening
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Songs in Easy English
 
○○○ Nantucket ⪢⪢
The first American whalers sailed from the town of Nantucket.
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○○○ Nantucket ⪢⪢
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○○○ New Bedford ⪢⪢
I put a shirt or two into my bag and left for New Bedford, Massachusets - that's where you go to find a whaling ship.
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○○○ off ⪢⪢
We couldn't cut the fat off four whales in one day so we had to watch them that night.
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○○○ oil ⪢⪢
When the oil was ready, we put it into barrels.
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○○○ on ⪢⪢
He closed his mouth on Captain Ahsb's boat and took it out of the water.
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○○○ onto ⪢⪢
Then they helped us onto the ship. → unto
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○○○ or ⪢⪢
Who or what did that to him?
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○○○ peg ⪢⪢
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○○○ pegan ⪢⪢
He is a strange fellow, looks like a pegan.
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○○○ Pequod ⪢⪢
Flask suddenly shouted, "The ship! Moby Dick's going to hit the Pequod!"
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○○○ Pequod ⪢⪢
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○○○ pull ⪢⪢
The water pulled the whaling boat with all the men under the water.
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○○○ pulpit ⪢⪢
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○○○ Queequeg ⪢⪢
This is Queequeg, the finest whaler on the ocean.
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○○○ run ⪢⪢
And an ugly white line ran down from the top of his head.
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○○○ scar ⪢⪢
Did the scar go all the way to his feet?
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○○○ serene ⪢⪢
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○○○ serman ⪢⪢
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○○○ Shetland ⪢⪢
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○○○ shine ⪢⪢
When he came up out of the water, his great white body shone in the morning sun. Birds followed him and flew above him. Captain Ahap's face shone too. He was a child again.
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○○○ shoes ⪢⪢
Stubb took off his coat and shoes so he could swim.
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○○○ squire ⪢⪢
If Ahab had been a medieval king, they would have been his knights and the harpooners would have been his squires. #conditional ◁→◁
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○○○ Starbuck ⪢⪢
Starbuck was a young man. When you saw his black clothes and sad face, you could forget that.
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◌◌◌ Starbuck
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○○○ Starbucks ⪢⪢
The multi-billion-dollar corporation got its name from the book, Moby Dick. The coffee chain was inspired by the name of the whaling ship's first mate Starbuck.
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○○○ Stubb ⪢⪢
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Stubb always shouted at us.
#listening
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○○○ Tashtego ⪢⪢
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The barman ran in.
#listening
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○○○ tomahawk ⪢⪢
"Who you?" cried the harpooner in a deep voice lifting his tomahawk.
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○○○ trip ⪢⪢
Stubb put Pip in our boat on the next whaling trip because there was no other man.
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○○○ turn around ⪢⪢
Then he turned around and looked at Captain Ahap.
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○○○ turn around ⪢⪢
He stopped me and turned the big book around.
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○○○ up ⪢⪢
Our sails were up and the wind carried the boat away.
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○○○ we're ⪢⪢
We're all whalers and many of us have sons.
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○○○ were ⪢⪢
Why weren't we afraid?
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○○○ were ⪢⪢
Were they the calls of dead sailors?
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○○○ were ⪢⪢
Were the men on the Pequod devils?
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○○○ wild ⪢⪢
His hair was gray and wild.
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○○○ will ⪢⪢
Then I'll die when I go home. They'll put a rope around me and kill me there. #bookmark
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○○○ with ⪢⪢
He walked with the harpoon to the men and sat down on a barrel. #bookmark
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