{"id":"01KF7FPNZTNG3F7BSYZP5PYJ67","cid":"bafkreigk26hodrmzmnhmx4ryxt5hr6khazx4gf2grrkdxqwzqora4y324e","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":19290,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.574Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chapter 120","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":19265,"text":"from the eastward, the very course Ahab is to run for Moby Dick? the\r\nvery course he swung to this day noon? now mark his boat there; where\r\nis that stove? In the stern-sheets, man; where he is wont to stand—his\r\nstand-point is stove, man! Now jump overboard, and sing away, if thou\r\nmust!\r\n\r\n“I don’t half understand ye: what’s in the wind?”\r\n\r\n“Yes, yes, round the Cape of Good Hope is the shortest way to\r\nNantucket,” soliloquized Starbuck suddenly, heedless of Stubb’s\r\nquestion. “The gale that now hammers at us to stave us, we can turn it\r\ninto a fair wind that will drive us towards home. Yonder, to windward,\r\nall is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward—I see it lightens up\r\nthere; but not with the lightning.”\r\n\r\nAt that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following\r\nthe flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the same\r\ninstant a volley of thunder peals rolled overhead.\r\n\r\n“Who’s there?”\r\n\r\n“Old Thunder!” said Ahab, groping his way along the bulwarks to his\r\npivot-hole; but suddenly finding his path made plain to him by elbowed\r\nlances of fire.\r\n\r\nNow, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off\r","title":"Chapter 120"},"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":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.439Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.439Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}