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)
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Writer, thesaurus-reader, lover of bees and plants (she/her)
#WritingBarn #SCBWI #kidlit #amquerying #mobydick
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad; how that they being the...
#sparrow #bird #literature
But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad; how that they being the...
#sparrow #bird #literature
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad; how that they being the...
#sparrow #bird #literature
But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad; how that they being the...
#sparrow #bird #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely fortune—and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and I am quite content if the world is ready to board...
#graffiti #montreal #lostclaws
It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely fortune—and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and I am quite content if the world is ready to board...
#graffiti #montreal #lostclaws
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely fortune—and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and I am quite content if the world is ready to board...
#graffiti #montreal #lostclaws
It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely fortune—and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and I am quite content if the world is ready to board...
#graffiti #montreal #lostclaws
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my own lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt from all I had heard I should be offered...
#dinosaur #epic #literature
I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my own lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt from all I had heard I should be offered...
#dinosaur #epic #literature
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my own lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt from all I had heard I should be offered...
#dinosaur #epic #literature
I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my own lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt from all I had heard I should be offered...
#dinosaur #epic #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said nothing, only looking round me sharply. Peleg now threw open a chest, and drawing forth the ship's...
#TimHortons #Canada #Winter
I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said nothing, only looking round me sharply. Peleg now threw open a chest, and drawing forth the ship's...
#TimHortons #Canada #Winter
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said nothing, only looking round me sharply. Peleg now threw open a chest, and drawing forth the ship's...
#TimHortons #Canada #Winter
I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said nothing, only looking round me sharply. Peleg now threw open a chest, and drawing forth the ship's...
#TimHortons #Canada #Winter
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh? Ye have been studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my certain knowledge. How far ye got, Bildad?"
As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old...
#hydrangea #winter 🌱 #photography
"Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh? Ye have been studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my certain knowledge. How far ye got, Bildad?"
As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old...
#hydrangea #winter 🌱 #photography
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh? Ye have been studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my certain knowledge. How far ye got, Bildad?"
As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old...
#hydrangea #winter 🌱 #photography
"Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh? Ye have been studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my certain knowledge. How far ye got, Bildad?"
As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old...
#hydrangea #winter 🌱 #photography
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So come read with me.
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The wonderful thing about MD is you can join any time! The beauty of the book is in its details, not its plot.
So come read with me.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Follow me! I'm posting the whole novel of #MobyDick bit by digestible bit.
The wonderful thing about MD is you can join any time! The beauty of the book is in its details, not its plot.
So come read with me.
#hermanmelville #classics #literature
The wonderful thing about MD is you can join any time! The beauty of the book is in its details, not its plot.
So come read with me.
#hermanmelville #classics #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-colored eye intently looking at you,are you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something—a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what. ...
🌱 #orchid #phalaenopsis
When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-colored eye intently looking at you,are you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something—a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what. ...
🌱 #orchid #phalaenopsis
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-colored eye intently looking at you,are you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something—a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what. ...
🌱 #orchid #phalaenopsis
When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-colored eye intently looking at you,are you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something—a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what. ...
🌱 #orchid #phalaenopsis
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Now Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seemed a curious story, that when he sailed the...
#MyLittlePony #pinata #literature
Now Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seemed a curious story, that when he sailed the...
#MyLittlePony #pinata #literature
February 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Now Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seemed a curious story, that when he sailed the...
#MyLittlePony #pinata #literature
Now Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seemed a curious story, that when he sailed the...
#MyLittlePony #pinata #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns...
#puzzle #literature #classics
Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns...
#puzzle #literature #classics
February 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns...
#puzzle #literature #classics
Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns...
#puzzle #literature #classics
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never...
#shadows #literature
And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never...
#shadows #literature
February 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never...
#shadows #literature
And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never...
#shadows #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketer, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, ...
#octopus #sculpture #literature
Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketer, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, ...
#octopus #sculpture #literature
January 30, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketer, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, ...
#octopus #sculpture #literature
Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketer, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, ...
#octopus #sculpture #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and surprising figure. It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case...
#FoundArt #harmony #literature
Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and surprising figure. It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case...
#FoundArt #harmony #literature
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and surprising figure. It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case...
#FoundArt #harmony #literature
Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and surprising figure. It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case...
#FoundArt #harmony #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide,vwas now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean. The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the...
🌱 #orchid #shadow
Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide,vwas now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean. The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the...
🌱 #orchid #shadow
January 28, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 3:34 AM
“Elected Republicans could stop this tonight if they wanted to.
[…]
This is a country of 340 million people.
16 people could stop this tonight.
23 people could impeach and remove Trump.
if they wanted to.”
- @hcrichardson.bsky.social on YouTube
#FundHealthcareStopICE
youtube.com/shorts/DekIP...
[…]
This is a country of 340 million people.
16 people could stop this tonight.
23 people could impeach and remove Trump.
if they wanted to.”
- @hcrichardson.bsky.social on YouTube
#FundHealthcareStopICE
youtube.com/shorts/DekIP...
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Very good. Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!"
"I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to be got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact." ...
#snow #asmr
"Very good. Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!"
"I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to be got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact." ...
#snow #asmr
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"What do mean, sir? Was the other one lost by a whale?"
"Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest [sic] parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!—ah, ah!"
I was a little...
#snowflake #photography #literature
"What do mean, sir? Was the other one lost by a whale?"
"Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest [sic] parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!—ah, ah!"
I was a little...
#snowflake #photography #literature
January 26, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"What do mean, sir? Was the other one lost by a whale?"
"Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest [sic] parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!—ah, ah!"
I was a little...
#snowflake #photography #literature
"What do mean, sir? Was the other one lost by a whale?"
"Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest [sic] parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!—ah, ah!"
I was a little...
#snowflake #photography #literature
Today's #MobyDick quote:
"Want to see what whaling is, eh? Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?"
"Who is Captain Ahab, sir?"
"Aye, aye, I thought so. Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
"I am mistaken, then. I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself." ...
#frost #winter #photography
"Want to see what whaling is, eh? Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?"
"Who is Captain Ahab, sir?"
"Aye, aye, I thought so. Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
"I am mistaken, then. I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself." ...
#frost #winter #photography
January 23, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote:
"Want to see what whaling is, eh? Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?"
"Who is Captain Ahab, sir?"
"Aye, aye, I thought so. Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
"I am mistaken, then. I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself." ...
#frost #winter #photography
"Want to see what whaling is, eh? Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?"
"Who is Captain Ahab, sir?"
"Aye, aye, I thought so. Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
"I am mistaken, then. I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself." ...
#frost #winter #photography
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"But flukes! man, what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?—it looks a little suspicious, don't it, eh?—Hast not been a pirate, hast thou?—Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?—Dost not think of murdering the officers when thou gettest...
#ocean #sunrise #nofilter
"But flukes! man, what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?—it looks a little suspicious, don't it, eh?—Hast not been a pirate, hast thou?—Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?—Dost not think of murdering the officers when thou gettest...
#ocean #sunrise #nofilter
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Is this the Captain of the Pequod?" said I, advancing to the door of the tent.
"Supposing it be the Captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want of him?" he demanded.
"I was thinking of shipping."
"Thou wast, wast thou? I see thou art...
#pier #ocean #cool
"Is this the Captain of the Pequod?" said I, advancing to the door of the tent.
"Supposing it be the Captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want of him?" he demanded.
"I was thinking of shipping."
"Thou wast, wast thou? I see thou art...
#pier #ocean #cool
January 21, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair wriggling all over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was constructed.
There was nothing so very particular, perhaps..
#garlic #food 🌱
He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair wriggling all over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was constructed.
There was nothing so very particular, perhaps..
#garlic #food 🌱
January 20, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little...
#landscape #BlueSky #zen
Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little...
#landscape #BlueSky #zen
January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little...
#landscape #BlueSky #zen
Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little...
#landscape #BlueSky #zen
Today's #MobyDick quote:
Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest,...
#orchid 🌱 #phalaenopsis #flower
Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest,...
#orchid 🌱 #phalaenopsis #flower
January 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote:
Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest,...
#orchid 🌱 #phalaenopsis #flower
Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest,...
#orchid 🌱 #phalaenopsis #flower
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
She [the Pequod ] was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. All...
#cactus #closeup #ChristmasTree 🌱
She [the Pequod ] was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. All...
#cactus #closeup #ChristmasTree 🌱
January 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
She [the Pequod ] was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. All...
#cactus #closeup #ChristmasTree 🌱
She [the Pequod ] was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. All...
#cactus #closeup #ChristmasTree 🌱
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Her venerable bows looked bearded. Her masts—cut somewhere on the coast of Japan, where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale—her masts stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her ancient decks were worn...
#snowman #winter #cute
Her venerable bows looked bearded. Her masts—cut somewhere on the coast of Japan, where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale—her masts stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her ancient decks were worn...
#snowman #winter #cute
January 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM