May 19, 2014
CHAPTER 55 Monstrous Pictures of Whales
It is also very curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the thumb. This fin has four regular bone-fingers, the index, middle, ring, and little finger. But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering. "However recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us," said humorous Stubb one day, "he can never be truly said to handle us without mittens."
All Excerpts From
Melville, Herman. "Moby-Dick." Harlequin, 2009. iBooks.
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