She Who Quotes Moby Dick
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*Quoting_Moby Dick_ from start to finish!*
Writer, thesaurus-reader, lover of bees and plants (she/her)
#WritingBarn #SCBWI #kidlit #amquerying #mobydick
Writer, thesaurus-reader, lover of bees and plants (she/her)
#WritingBarn #SCBWI #kidlit #amquerying #mobydick
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with...
#snow #maple #red #nature
But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with...
#snow #maple #red #nature
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of...
#snow #winter #pumpkin #Melville
When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of...
#snow #winter #pumpkin #Melville
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote :
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote :
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
Reposted by She Who Quotes Moby Dick
I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage far away to far distant scenes, I know not; but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go ahead and tell it. He gladly complied.
...
(Ever seen #violet #seeds ? 🌱)
Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage far away to far distant scenes, I know not; but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go ahead and tell it. He gladly complied.
...
(Ever seen #violet #seeds ? 🌱)
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱
Today's #mobydick quote:
For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
#leaf #print #FallVibes #NatureArt
For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
#leaf #print #FallVibes #NatureArt
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today's #mobydick quote:
For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
#leaf #print #FallVibes #NatureArt
For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
#leaf #print #FallVibes #NatureArt
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bedclothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room. The more so, I say, because to truly enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold,...
#rose 🌱 #flower #bloom
We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bedclothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room. The more so, I say, because to truly enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold,...
#rose 🌱 #flower #bloom
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by She Who Quotes Moby Dick
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
CHAPTER 11
NIGHTGOWN
We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when...
#rose 🌱 #red
CHAPTER 11
NIGHTGOWN
We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when...
#rose 🌱 #red
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottoms of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till...
#cozy #frenchie #love
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottoms of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till...
#cozy #frenchie #love
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I...
#butterfly #eye #bugsky #closeup
Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I...
#butterfly #eye #bugsky #closeup
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I...
#butterfly #eye #bugsky #closeup
Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I...
#butterfly #eye #bugsky #closeup
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the...
#butterfly #bugsky #closeup
I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the...
#butterfly #bugsky #closeup
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the...
#butterfly #bugsky #closeup
I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the...
#butterfly #bugsky #closeup
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase...
#butterfly #bugsky #beauty
He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase...
#butterfly #bugsky #beauty
October 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase...
#butterfly #bugsky #beauty
He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country's phrase...
#butterfly #bugsky #beauty
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
We then turned over the book together, and I endeavoured to explain to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures that were in it. Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering...
#sky #ferriswheel #hermanmelville
We then turned over the book together, and I endeavoured to explain to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures that were in it. Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering...
#sky #ferriswheel #hermanmelville
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
We then turned over the book together, and I endeavoured to explain to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures that were in it. Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering...
#sky #ferriswheel #hermanmelville
We then turned over the book together, and I endeavoured to explain to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures that were in it. Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering...
#sky #ferriswheel #hermanmelville
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend,...
#fallvibes #puddle #nature
Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend,...
#fallvibes #puddle #nature
October 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend,...
#fallvibes #puddle #nature
Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll try a pagan friend,...
#fallvibes #puddle #nature
Today's #mobydick quote:
No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage has redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
#rose 🌱 #pink
No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage has redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
#rose 🌱 #pink
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements,...
#snek #snake #reptile #cute #nature
As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements,...
#snek #snake #reptile #cute #nature
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there was something almost sublime in it. Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way he could get there—...
#pelican #bird #hermanmelville
All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there was something almost sublime in it. Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way he could get there—...
#pelican #bird #hermanmelville
October 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there was something almost sublime in it. Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way he could get there—...
#pelican #bird #hermanmelville
All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there was something almost sublime in it. Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way he could get there—...
#pelican #bird #hermanmelville
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never needed my presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting...
#dahlia 🌱 #sunrise
Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never needed my presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting...
#dahlia 🌱 #sunrise
October 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
He [Queequeg] looked like a man who had never cringed and never had a creditor. Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than...
(Thrilled by my very first #orchid baby #keiki!) 🌱
He [Queequeg] looked like a man who had never cringed and never had a creditor. Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than...
(Thrilled by my very first #orchid baby #keiki!) 🌱
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his...
🌱 #peppers #fall #farmshare
With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his...
🌱 #peppers #fall #farmshare
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his...
🌱 #peppers #fall #farmshare
With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his...
🌱 #peppers #fall #farmshare