{"id":"01KF7FPP1DGA6X44AYGNCRBHS0","cid":"bafkreiffyn3wc4hwmvmgtjvztn2ytgfxc4ajawh7gjgiosz655dpfsn6tq","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":19264,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.579Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chapter 129","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":19228,"text":"see, Mr. Starbuck, a wave has such a great long start before it leaps,\r\nall round the world it runs, and then comes the spring! But as for me,\r\nall the start I have to meet it, is just across the deck here. But\r\nnever mind; it’s all in fun: so the old song says;”—(_sings_.)\r\n\r\n\r\n  Oh! jolly is the gale, And a joker is the whale, A’ flourishin’ his\r\n  tail,— Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the\r\n  Ocean, oh!\r\n\r\n  The scud all a flyin’, That’s his flip only foamin’; When he stirs in\r\n  the spicin’,— Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad,\r\n  is the Ocean, oh!\r\n\r\n  Thunder splits the ships, But he only smacks his lips, A tastin’ of\r\n  this flip,— Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad,\r\n  is the Ocean, oh!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n“Avast Stubb,” cried Starbuck, “let the Typhoon sing, and strike his\r\nharp here in our rigging; but if thou art a brave man thou wilt hold\r\nthy peace.”\r\n\r\n“But I am not a brave man; never said I was a brave man; I am a coward;\r\nand I sing to keep up my spirits. And I tell you what it is, Mr.\r\nStarbuck, there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my\r\nthroat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a\r\nwind-up.”\r\n\r\n“Madman! look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.”\r\n\r\n“What! how can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never\r\nmind how foolish?”\r\n\r\n“Here!” cried Starbuck, seizing Stubb by the shoulder, and pointing his\r\nhand towards the weather bow, “markest thou not that the gale comes\r","title":"Chapter 129"},"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":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.457Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.457Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}