Moby Dick Pod

"As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jolly-boat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled."

We discuss the pseudo science of Physiognomist or Phrenologist, which Ishmael also calls pseudo science and says he doesn't quite understand but tries anyway. 

"...smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale."

Tashtego has a terrible accident. Queequeg saves the day. 

"Attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and—in this particular instance—almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped."

We're still talking about the guts of the whale. 

"But clear Truth is a thing for salamander giants only to encounter; how small the chances for the provincials then?"

Not gonna lie, I have no idea what this chapter was about. 

"I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death."

We're still talking about Whale carcasses. 

"This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his jaw have relaxed."

We examine the difference in whale's heads. Eyes & ears. 

"And so flinging off its drippings, that the drops fell like bits of broken glass on the water, while the whale beyond also rose to sight, and once more the boats were free to fly."

Flask and Stubb kill and whale and gossip about Fedallah and how much they think he's the devil. 

"That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad."

Ishmael holds Queequeg vertically by a rope while he works on cutting up the whale and contemplates their connection. Some ginger tea gets brought out and tossed overboard. 

"lo! a broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion, temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen."

The Pequod encounters another ship, The Jeroboam, which has been taken over by a madman religious fanatic who believes himself to be the archangel Gabriel. 

"That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world's foundations."

The Whale is beheaded and Ahab asks the whale to speak. Which... the whale does not do.