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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Moby Dick - Chapters 80 and 81 pt 1

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Fiction, Drama

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 22 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

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

0:05.4

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th.

0:08.0

But I think it's just the holiday period.

0:10.2

It's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

0:14.2

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

0:18.8

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

0:28.4

Chapter 80, the nut.

0:31.7

If the sperm whale be physiognomically as finks, to the phrenologist his brain seems that

0:37.2

geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.

0:42.0

In the full grown creature the skull will measure at least 20 feet in length.

0:46.1

On hinge the lower jaw and the side view of the skull is as the side of a moderately

0:50.4

inclined plane resting throughout on a level base.

0:55.4

But in life as we have elsewhere seen, this inclined plane is angrily filled up and

1:00.6

almost squared by the enormous super incumbent mass of the junk and sperm.

1:06.3

At the high end the skull forms a crater to bed that part of the mass.

1:11.2

While under the long floor of this crater in another cavity, seldom exceeding ten inches

1:15.6

in length and as many in depth, reposes the mere handful of this monster's brain.

1:23.0

The brain is at least 20 feet from his apparent forehead in life.

1:26.8

It is hidden away behind its vast outworks like the innermost citadel within the amplified

1:31.9

fortifications of Quebec.

1:34.8

So like a choice casket is it secreted in him that I have known some whaleman who preempt

1:40.4

early deny that the sperm whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance of one

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