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1Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a
2grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of
3unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary. But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an
4example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this
5stage. Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging to whaling vessels, he was, to a certain
6off-handed, practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own; the carpenter's
7pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with
8wood as an auxiliary material. But, besides the application to him of the generic remark above, this carpenter of the
9Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship,
10upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized and far-distant seas. For not to speak of his readiness in ordinary
11duties:--repairing stove boats, sprung spars, reforming the shape of clumsy-bladed oars, inserting bull's eyes in the
12deck, or new tree-nails in the side planks, and other miscellaneous matters more directly pertaining to his special
13business; he was moreover unhesitatingly expert in all manner of conflicting aptitudes, both useful and capricious. The
14one grand stage where he enacted all his various parts so manifold, was his vice-bench; a long rude ponderous table
15furnished with several vices, of different sizes, and both of iron and of wood. At all times except when whales were
16alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works. A belaying pin is found too
17large to be easily inserted into its hole: the carpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and straightway
18files it smaller. A lost land-bird of strange plumage strays on board, and is made a captive: out of clean shaved rods
19of right-whale bone, and cross-beams of sperm whale ivory, the carpenter makes a pagoda-looking cage for it. An oarsman
20sprains his wrist: the carpenter concocts a soothing lotion. Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the
21blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the
22constellation. A sailor takes a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the carpenter drills his ears. Another has the
23toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow
24unmanageably winces under the unconcluded operation; whirling round the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs
25him to clap his jaw in that, if he would have him draw the tooth. Thus, this carpenter was prepared at all points, and
26alike indifferent and without respect in all. Teeth he accounted bits of ivory; heads he deemed but top-blocks; men
27themselves he lightly held for capstans. But while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished and with such
28liveliness of expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue some uncommon vivacity of intelligence. But not
29precisely so. For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal,
30I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity
31discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its
32peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals. Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him,
33involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness;--yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old,
34crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as
35might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah's ark. Was it that this
36old carpenter had been a life-long wanderer, whose much rolling, to and fro, not only had gathered no moss; but what is
37more, had rubbed off whatever small outward clingings might have originally pertained to him? He was a stript abstract;
38an unfractioned integral; uncompromised as a new-born babe; living without premeditated reference to this world or the
39next. You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his
40numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been tutored to it,
41or by any intermixture of all these, even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal process.
42He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his
43fingers. He was like one of those unreasoning but still highly useful, multum in parvo, Sheffield contrivances, assuming
44the exterior--though a little swelled--of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but
45also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls, pens, rulers, nail-filers, countersinkers. So, if his superiors wanted
46to use the carpenter for a screw-driver, all they had to do was to open that part of him, and the screw was fast: or if
47for tweezers, take him up by the legs, and there they were. Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut
48carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton. If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a subtle
49something that somehow anomalously did its duty. What that was, whether essence of quicksilver, or a few drops of
50hartshorn, there is no telling. But there it was; and there it had abided for now some sixty years or more. And this it
51was, this same unaccountable, cunning life-principle in him; this it was, that kept him a great part of the time
52soliloquizing; but only like an unreasoning wheel, which also hummingly soliloquizes; or rather, his body was a
53sentry-box and this soliloquizer on guard there, and talking all the time to keep himself awake.
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