MOBY-DICK, Page 361

Title: And as for this whale spout, you might almost stand in it, and yet be undecided as to what it is precisely.

5.25 inches by 9.25 inches
ballpoint pen on found paper
August 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 360

Title: Now, the spouting canal of the Sperm Whale, chiefly intended as it is for the conveyance of air, and for several feet laid along, horizontally, just beneath the upper surface of his head, and a little to one side; this curious canal is very much like a gas-pipe laid down in a city on one side of a street.

10.75 inches by 7.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
August 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 359

Title: This is what I mean. If unmolested, upon rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale will continue there for a period of time exactly uniform with all his other unmolested risings. Say he stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy breaths; then whenever he rises again, he will be sure to have his seventy breaths over again, to a minute. Now, if after he fetches a few breaths you alarm him, so that he sounds, he will be always dodging up again to make good his regular allowance of air. And not till those seventy breaths are told, will he finally go down to stay out his full term below.

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink on Bristol board
August 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 358

Title: ...and what is still more, his windpipe has no connexion with his mouth. No, he breathes through his spiracle alone; and this is on the top of his head.

8.5 inches by 7 inches
ink and marker on found paper
August 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 357

Title: Instead of sparkling water, he now spouts red blood.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
August 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 356

Title: Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or twelve feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the harpoon, and also of a lighter material - pine.

6.25 inches by 8.75 inches
ink on found paper
August 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 355

Title: And some three centuries ago, an English traveller in old Harris's Voyages, speaks of a Turkish Mosque built in honor of Jonah, in which mosque was a miraculous lamp that burnt without any oil.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
August 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 354

Title: ...Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the Mediterranean Sea, and after three days he was vomited up somewhere within three days' journey of Nineveh, a city on the Tigris...

8.5 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen, collage and ink on found paper
August 25 ,2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 353

Title: One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew story was this: — He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles, embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head...

7 inches by 8.5 inches
ink and pencil on Bristol board
August 24, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 352

Title: In fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines, Dagon by name...

5 inches by 7.75 inches
ballpoint pen, colored pencil and ink on found paper
August 15, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 351

Title: ...Perseus, the prince of whalemen, intrepidly advancing, harpooned the monster...

10 inches by 6.25 inches
ink on watercolor paper
August 15, 2010