{"id":"01KF7FPMMSYW9Q36KX3AZ5QG4Q","cid":"bafkreienjozkb6mcbsfaz62wuhgxc7ke7nenygmcvmxhh5u3esbypbxwje","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":1765,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.048Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Biographical","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":1745,"text":"CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.\r\n\r\nUpon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown\r\nover me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost\r\nthought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of\r\nodd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his\r\ntattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no\r\ntwo parts of which were of one precise shade—owing I suppose to his\r\nkeeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt\r\nsleeves irregularly rolled up at various times—this same arm of his, I\r\nsay, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork\r\nquilt. Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I\r\ncould hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues\r\ntogether; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I\r\ncould tell that Queequeg was hugging me.\r\n\r\nMy sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them. When I was a\r\nchild, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me;\r\nwhether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle. The\r\ncircumstance was this. I had been cutting up some caper or other—I\r\nthink it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little\r","title":"Biographical"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.123Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.123Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}