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1There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole
2universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke
3is at nobody's expense but his own. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing. He bolts down
4all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as
5an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for small difficulties and worryings,
6prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured
7hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker. That odd sort of wayward mood I
8am speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst of his
9earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the
10general joke. There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado
11philosophy; and with it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.
12"Queequeg," said I, when they had dragged me, the last man, to the deck, and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to
13fling off the water; "Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?" Without much emotion, though
14soaked through just like me, he gave me to understand that such things did often happen. "Mr. Stubb," said I, turning to
15that worthy, who, buttoned up in his oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain; "Mr. Stubb, I think I have
16heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met, our chief mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent. I
17suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's
18discretion?" "Certain. I've lowered for whales from a leaking ship in a gale off Cape Horn." "Mr. Flask," said I,
19turning to little King-Post, who was standing close by; "you are experienced in these things, and I am not. Will you
20tell me whether it is an unalterable law in this fishery, Mr. Flask, for an oarsman to break his own back pulling
21himself back-foremost into death's jaws?" "Can't you twist that smaller?" said Flask. "Yes, that's the law. I should
22like to see a boat's crew backing water up to a whale face foremost. Ha, ha! the whale would give them squint for
23squint, mind that!" Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case.
24Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of
25common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale
26I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat--oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his
27impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular
28disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth
29of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery;
30considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase
31I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and
32make a rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee." It may
33seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in
34the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.
35After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my
36heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a
37supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were
38locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting
39inside the bars of a snug family vault. Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes
40for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.
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