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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Moby Dick - Chapters 26 and 27

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Fiction, Drama

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 20 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

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

0:13.6

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:17.9

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

0:21.6

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

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

0:32.0

Chapter 26

0:34.4

Knights and Squires

0:38.0

The chief made of the Peequad was Starbucks, a native of Nantucket and a quaker by descent.

0:44.3

He was a long, earnest man and though born on an icy coast

0:48.4

seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes,

0:51.3

his flesh being hard as twice baked biscuit.

0:55.3

Transported to the indies his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale.

1:00.6

He must have been born in some time of general drought in famine

1:04.8

or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous.

1:10.1

Only some thirty-airid summers had he seen

1:13.4

those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness.

1:18.2

But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares,

1:24.2

then it seemed the indication of any bodily blight.

1:27.9

It was merely the condensation of the man.

1:31.2

He was by no means ill-looking, quite the contrary.

1:34.8

His pure tight skin was an excellent fit and closely wrapped up in it

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