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Moby Dick
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet’ and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral princi ....
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.... mean to, he finds himself running into things related to death, "coffin warehouses" and funerals. The phrase "requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street," also shown Ishmael’s thoughts of death and suicide.
Ishmael’s only escape to death is the sea, this is stated in the last line of this quote, "I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can." Ishmael’s only cure to stop thinking about death and feeling so depress and empty, is the sea. The sea symbolizes a part of nature. Ishmael needs to escape from civilization and be out ....
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