{"id":"01KF7FPP0XZJHXZEBJJYPTASHE","cid":"bafkreid2d7esu5sejt5zb5qkugr6lmkiqbljipmzxgdrurl7comurdqoei","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":16323,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.563Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"The Cassock","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":16306,"text":"CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.\r\n\r\nHad you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this\r\npost-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the\r\nwindlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small\r\ncuriosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen\r\nthere, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers. Not the wondrous\r\ncistern in the whale’s huge head; not the prodigy of his unhinged lower\r\njaw; not the miracle of his symmetrical tail; none of these would so\r\nsurprise you, as half a glimpse of that unaccountable cone,—longer than\r\na Kentuckian is tall, nigh a foot in diameter at the base, and\r\njet-black as Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg. And an idol, indeed, it\r\nis; or, rather, in old times, its likeness was. Such an idol as that\r\nfound in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for\r\nworshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the\r\nidol, and burnt it for an abomination at the brook Kedron, as darkly\r\nset forth in the 15th chapter of the First Book of Kings.\r\n\r","title":"The Cassock"},"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":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.434Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.434Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}