id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-032 chapter-032 .txt text/plain 294 18 89 When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the stool on the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked. In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab. now, he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, "this smoking no ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with pipe? pipe? pipe? pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like I'll smoke no more--" He tossed the still lighted pipe into the sea. waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble the sinking pipe With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks. ./cache/chapter-032.txt ./txt/chapter-032.txt