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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Moby Dick - Chapter 119

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Fiction, Drama

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little.

0:24.0

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:54.0

I've never swept tame northern lands. So too it is that in these resplendent Japanese seas the Mariner encounters the diorist of all storms, the typhoon.

1:08.0

It will sometimes burst from out that cloud the sky like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.

1:17.0

Towards evening of that day the Piquad was torn off her canvas and bare-pulled was left to fight a typhoon which had struck her directly ahead.

1:26.0

When darkness came on sky and sea roared and split with the thunder and blazed with the lightning.

1:32.0

The chowed the disabled mast fluttering here and there with the rags which the first fury of the tempest had left for its after sport.

1:43.0

Holding by a shroud star book was standing on the quarter deck. At every flash of the lightning glancing aloft to see what additional disaster might have befall in the intricate hamper there.

1:55.0

While stub and flask were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer lashing of the boats.

2:02.0

But all their pains seemed not.

2:06.0

Though lifted to the very top of the cranes the windward quarterboat they habs did not escape.

2:13.0

A great rolling sea dashing high up against the reeling ships high teetering side stove in the boats bottom at the stern and left it again all dripping through like a sieve.

2:26.0

Bad work, bad work, Mr. star book said stub regarding the wreck. But the sea will have its way. Stubbed for one can't fight it.

2:36.0

You see Mr. star book a wave has such a great long start before it leaps all around the world it runs and then comes the spring.

2:45.0

But as for me all the start I have to meet it is just across the deck here.

2:51.0

It's all in fun so the old song says.

2:56.0

Sings O' jolly is the gale and a joker is the whale of flourishing his tail.

3:02.0

Such a funny sporty Gami jesty joki hoki pokey lad is the oceanoe.

3:08.0

The scut all the flying that is flip only foemen when he starts in the spyson such a funny sporty Gami jesty joki hoki pokey lad is the oceanoe.

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