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chapter-071		chapter-071			.txt	text/plain	447	31	84	beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite The sea-vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost survives and hovers over it to scare. the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a Are you a believer in ghosts, my friend? There are other ghosts than	./cache/chapter-071.txt	./txt/chapter-071.txt