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This whole act's immutably decreed. But he presses on and as he raises his harpoon, the whale. Theories of the composition of the book have been harpooned in three ways, first by raising objections against the use of evidence and the evidence itself. The British publisher hired one or more revisers who were, in the evaluation of scholar Steven Olsen-Smith, responsible for "unauthorized changes ranging from typographical errors and omissions to acts of outright censorship". Fleece, at Stubb's request, delivers a sermon to the sharks that fight each other to feast on the whale's carcass, tied to the ship, saying that their nature is to be voracious, but they must overcome it. The other event was the alleged killing in the late s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick , in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha.

Pleased but not overwhelmed by the adulation of his new public, years later Melville expressed concern that he would "go down to posterity Writing was interrupted by his meeting Nathaniel Hawthorne in August , and by the creation of the " Mosses from an Old Manse " essay as a result of that friendship. Queequeg mounts it, tied to Ishmael's belt by a monkey-rope as if they were Siamese twins. The simplest sequences are of narrative progression, then sequences of theme such as the three chapters on whale painting, and sequences of structural similarity, such as the five dramatic chapters beginning with "The Quarter-Deck" or the four chapters beginning with "The Candles".