Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do… — Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851
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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.
Original citation
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 29.
