{"id":"01KG8AMBFAY7Y5E7Q43HRM4YBA","cid":"bafkreiax2dxvb2yyjevxqnggyru5mwabzjlm4om5tsccrvodq2surqk47i","type":"section","properties":{"description":"# CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.\n## Overview\nThis is a section from the novel *Moby-Dick; or, The Whale*, specifically labeled \"CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.\". It consists of a short passage of text extracted from lines 19529 to 19537 of the source file, [moby_dick.txt](arke:01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6).\n\n## Context\nThis section is part of [CHAPTER III. (_Mealy-mouthed Porpoise_)](arke:01KG8AK83BA227D6NY5BT040FM) within the larger novel *Moby-Dick; or, The Whale*. The novel itself is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. This section is preceded by [CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.](arke:01KG8AMBF553SA7FE3XN6YK2AW) and followed by [CHAPTER 123. The Musket.](arke:01KG8AMBFCG7YHCRDSE5AKTJRX).\n\n## Contents\nThe section contains a brief dialogue or monologue, seemingly from a character aloft on the main-top-sail yard during a thunderstorm. The character, possibly Tashtego, is heard complaining about the thunder and expressing a desire for rum. The stage direction indicates Tashtego is \"passing new lashings around it.\"\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:51:15.445Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.","end_line":19537,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:29.272Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.","source_file":"01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6","start_line":19529,"text":"CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.\r\n\r\n_The main-top-sail yard_.—_Tashtego passing new lashings around it_.\r\n\r\n“Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What’s\r\nthe use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don’t want thunder; we want rum;\r\ngive us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!”\r\n\r\n\r","title":"CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AK83BA227D6NY5BT040FM","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AMBF553SA7FE3XN6YK2AW","peer_type":"section","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AMBFCG7YHCRDSE5AKTJRX","peer_type":"section","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:34.282Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:51:15.662Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}