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The grey dawn came on, and the\r\n        slumbering crew arose from the boat\u2019s bottom, and ere noon the dead\r\n        whale was brought to the ship.\r\n    <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <p>\r\n        The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab,\r\n        coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would\r\n        ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run\r\n        to the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally\r\n        fixed on the nailed doubloon; impatient for the order to point the\r\n        ship\u2019s prow for the equator. In good time the order came. It was hard\r\n        upon high noon; and Ahab, seated in the bows of his high-hoisted boat,\r\n        was about taking his wonted daily observation of the sun to determine\r\n        his latitude.\r\n    <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <p>\r\n        Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of\r\n        effulgences. That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing\r\n        focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass. The sky looks\r\n        lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this nakedness\r\n        of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne.\r\n    <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <p>\r\n        Well that Ahab's quadrant was furnished with coloured glasses, through\r\n        which to take sight of that solar fire. So, swinging his seated form to\r\n        the roll of the ship, and with his astrological-looking instrument\r\n        placed to his eye, he remained in that posture for some moments to\r\n        catch the precise instant when the sun should gain its precise meridian.\r\n    <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <p>\r\n        Then gazing at his quadrant, and handling, one after the other, its\r\n        numerous cabalistical contrivances, he pondered again, and muttered:\r\n        \u201cFoolish toy! babies' plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores,\r\n        and Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cunning and might;\r\n        but what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point,\r\n        where thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet.\u201d\r\n    <\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/main>\r\n\r\n<footer class=\"gallows-footer\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"gallows-links\">\r\n        <a href=\"\/wordpress\/the-gallows-ye-mean\/\">The gallows, ye mean<\/a>\r\n        <a href=\"\/wordpress\/rushing-to-the-yard-arms\/\">Rushing to the yard-arms<\/a>\r\n        <a href=\"\/wordpress\/gamming\/\">Gamming<\/a>\r\n        <a href=\"\/wordpress\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"gallows-copy\">Literature Circles 2024<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/footer>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literature Circles Home About Us Contact Us Meetings The gallows, ye mean \u201cThe gallows, ye mean.\u2014I am immortal then, on land and on sea,\u201d cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;\u2014\u201cImmortal on land and on sea!\u201d Both were silent again, as one man. 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