THE CHASE from MOBY DICK by HERMAN MELVILLE (EARLY HOLIDAY RELEASE)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | People say us cats have it easy, but it's not all sunshine and catnip. I mean, someone's got to maintain unbroken eye contact while you're in the bath. |
| 0:15.8 | So after a long hard day my human better bring me a delicious bowl of whiskers. I'm talking to you Kevin. It's |
| 0:21.1 | almost per o'clock. Don't let me down. |
| 0:24.0 | Wiskers per moor. And the The Welcome back everyone. The one thousand one classic short stories entails this is your host John |
| 1:04.4 | Haggadorn and today we bring you Herman Melville's the Chase which is actually an |
| 1:09.4 | excerpt from his best-selling work Mobyy Dick. In the 1800s, whale oil was a necessity of life. |
| 1:17.2 | Whale oil kept lanterns lit at night, and whale meat, skin, blubber, and organs provided an important source of protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals. |
| 1:27.0 | Whale Belline was woven into baskets and used as fishing line. |
| 1:31.0 | Whale bones were used for toolmaking and carving. Today we have discovered new sources which don't require whales. But when Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851, young men were signing up in droves for adventure and hard work on ships |
| 1:46.4 | heading out of ports like Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, New London and Providence. Whaling was dangerous work, and some of them never returned from the long voyages. |
| 1:57.0 | We'll take our sponsor break before the narrative begins, |
| 2:00.0 | so that night That night in the midwatch when the old man, as his want at intervals, stepped forth from the scuttle at which he leaned and went to his pivot hole. |
| 2:20.0 | He suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious ship's dog will, |
| 2:26.0 | in drawing nigh to some barbarous isle. |
| 2:29.3 | He declared that a whale must be near. |
| 2:32.4 | Soon that peculiar odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by |
| 2:36.0 | the living sperm whale, was palpable to all the watch, nor was any mariner surprised when, |
| 2:42.0 | after inspecting the compass and and then the dog vein, and then |
| 2:45.3 | ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible, Ahab repeated the order |
| 2:50.5 | the ship's course to be slightly altered and the sail to be shortened. |
| 2:55.8 | The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak by |
| 3:00.2 | the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly unlengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, |
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