The Chase
Adapted from Chapter 135 of “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville
Includes Characters by Antonio Renteria
Written by William Rendfeld
Morning dawned fair and fresh on the third day of the chase, and once more the solitary night watchman at the fore-mast-head of the Pequod was relieved by the crowds of daylight look-outs as they dotted every mast and almost every spar.
"D'ye see her?" cried Ahab. The crew chorus in the negative, and the captain gazed out onto the sea. "In her infallible wake, though, but follow that wake, that's all. Helm there! Steady as thou goest, and hast been going. What a lovely day again! Were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could not dawn upon that world. Here's food for thought, had Ahab time to think. But Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels. That's tingling enough for mortal man! To think's audacity. God only has
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