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  2. Gam (nautical term) - Wikipedia

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    Herman Melville titles Chapter 53 of Moby-Dick, "The Gam."After explaining that the word does not appear in dictionaries, he gives his own definition: GAM. Noun - A social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships, generally on a cruising- ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats' crews: the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief ...

  3. Moby-Dick - Wikipedia

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    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.

  4. Moby Dick (whale) - Wikipedia

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    Moby Dick is a fictional white sperm whale and the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Melville based the whale on an albino whale of that ...

  5. Captain Ahab - Wikipedia

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    Captain Ahab is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod.On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of ivory.

  6. Ishmael (Moby-Dick) - Wikipedia

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    Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line "Call me Ishmael." He is the first-person narrator of much of the book. Because Ishmael plays a minor role in the plot, early critics of Moby-Dick assumed that Captain Ahab was the protagonist.

  7. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish - Wikipedia

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    Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish" is chapter 89 of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, in which Ishmael, the book's narrator, explains the concept of "Fast-Fish" and "Loose-Fish." If a whale, whether dead or not, is marked by a ship's crew with anything to claim it, such as a harpoon or rope, it is a "fast-fish", that is, it must be left alone by ...

  8. Limbus Company - Wikipedia

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    Narrator and main character of the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville: 9 Rodion Yoon A-young Main character of the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: 10 Dante N/A: Dante Alighieri and his narrative poem The Divine Comedy: 11 Emil Sinclair Kim Da-ol Protagonist of the bildungsroman Demian by Hermann Hesse: 12 Outis [d] Kim Bo-na

  9. Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park) - Wikipedia

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    Covering 80 acres (320,000 m 2), [3] the park featured a plethora of rides and other attractions, including the Space Rocket ride, the Pirate Ride, the Moby-Dick Hunt ride (which featured a spouting mechanical whale rising from the depths), the Wreck of the Hesperus (dark ride), the Old Chisholm Trail (dark ride), theme restaurants, a shopping ...