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Title: There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.

11 inches by 7.75 inches
ballpoint pen and marker on found paper
October 15, 2009

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Title: I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn, under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured eye...

6.75 inches by 8.5 inches
ballpoint pen, ink and marker on found paper
October 9, 2009

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Title: ...and moreover he had assured us that cousin Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders.

6.75 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on found paper
October 9, 2009

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Title: ...and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous! That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!

8 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 6, 2009

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Title: Thus goes the legend. In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant Indian in his talons. With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over the wide waters.

10 inches by 7 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 5, 2009

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Title: ...Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 4, 2009

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Title: At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me. His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
October 4, 2009

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Title: On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air...and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last...

11 inches by 7.75 inches
ballpoint pen on found paper
October 3, 2009

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Title: ...he had a particular affection for his own harpoon, because it was of assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat, and deeply intimate with the hearts of whales.

7.75 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 2, 2009

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Title: They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.

8.5 inches by 11 inches
colored pencil and ink on found paper
October 1, 2009