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This episode is supported by A Compliment from a Stranger Tonight I'll read Chapter 32 from Herman Melville's Moby Dick

titled Satology This chapter Dick, titled, Setology.

This chapter is a detour from the progress of the plot, and Melville delves into the study

of marine mammals like dolphins and whales.

Moby Dick was a commercial flop at the time, out of print by Melville's death,

and only found its reputation as a great American novel in the 20th century.

Author D.H. Lawrence called it one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world and the

greatest book of the sea ever ridden. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Moby Dick, Chapter 32, Satology.

Already we are boldly launched upon the deep, but soon we shall be lost in its unsureed

harbourless immensities, air that come to pass, air the Piquads, weedy hull rolls side by side with the

barnacled hulls of the Leviathan. At the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost indispensable

to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more special Leviathanic

revelations and illusions of all sorts which are to follow. It is some systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera

that I would now feign put before you, yet it is no easy task.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here a sade.

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