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Chapter 49. The hyena. There are certain queer times and occasions in the strange mixed

affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though

the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's

expense but his own. However, nothing to spirits, and nothing seems worthwhile disputing. He bolts

down all events, all creeds and beliefs and persuasions, all hard things visible and

invisible, never mind how knobby, as an ostrich of potent digestion gallblues down bullets

and gunfuls. And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster,

all these and at itself seem to him only sly, guid natured hits, and jolly punches in the

side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker.

That odd sort of wayward mood I'm speaking of comes over a man only in some time of extreme

tribulation. It comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before

might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems, but a part of the general joke.

There is nothing like the perils of wailing to breed this free and easy sort of genial

despirado philosophy. And with it I now regard this whole voyage of the

equad and the great white whale its object. Quickwegg said I, when they had dragged me

the last man to the deck, and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to fling off the

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