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MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 74 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 74 The Sperm Whale s Head - Contrasted View Here now are two great whales laying their heads together let us join them and lay together our own. Of the grand order of folio leviathans the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod s side and as we may freely go from one to the other by merely stepping across the deck - where I should like to know will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology than here In the first place you are struck by the general contrast between these heads. Both are massive enough in all conscience but there is a certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale s which the Right Whale s sadly lacks. There is more character in the Sperm Whale s head. As you behold it you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to him in point of pervading dignity. In the present instance too this dignity is heightened by the pepper and salt color of his head at the summit giving token of advanced age and large experience. In short he is what the fishermen technically call a grey-headed whale. Let us now note what is least dissimilar in these heads- namely the two most important organs the eye and the ear. Far back on the side of the head and low down near the angle of either whale s jaw if you narrowly search you will at last see a lashless eye which you would fancy to be a young colt s eye so out of all proportion is it to the magnitude of the head. Now from this peculiar sideway position of the whale s eyes it is plain that he can never see an object which is exactly ahead no more than he can one exactly astern. In a word the position of the whale s eyes corresponds to that of a man s ears and you may fancy for .
