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{{quote|''"He's killed himself," she cried. "It's unfort'nate stiggs done over again - there goes another counterpane - god pity his poor mother! - it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad a sister? Where's that girl? - there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with - "no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" - might as well kill both birds at once."''}}
* [[Author Filibuster]]: Melville looooooves whaling. They're the frontiersmen of the generation; the equivalent of cowboys and astronauts.
* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]]: Each Mate with each harpooner is this sort of pairing, Starbuck with Queequeg, Stubb with Tashtego, and Flask with Daggoo.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Queequeg's coffin.}}
* [[Determinator]]: Captain Ahab
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* [[Louis Cypher]]: Fedallah, possibly.
* [[Ludicrous Precision]]: The question of whether the whale's spout is water or vapour has lasted from the beginning of history down to "this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o'clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D. 1851)"
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Is Moby Dick a physical manifestation of nature's rage, or simply an overly-aggressive, larger-than-average sperm whale? For the most part, that's up to the reader's interpretation.
* [[Manly Men Can Hunt]]
* [[Medium Blending]]: Owing to the obvious Shakespearean influence on the novel, some of the chapters are written as a play script.
* [[The Mutiny]]: In Chapter 54, "The Town-Ho's Story".
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Ahab is named after the cruel king whose reign is detailed in Kings 16:29 through 22:40 of [[The Bible]]. Ishmael comments on how unfortunate a man is to be saddled with such a name.
* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: Courtesy of Fedallah.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Nobody knows just why or how the eponymous whale was named Moby Dick.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: "That deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa."
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Starbuck.
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* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]
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