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Moby-Dick Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks

By Herman Melville

Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks

Stubb and Flask work to lash down the anchors hanging over the forecastle bulwarks to stop them swinging wildly loose.
Stubb teases Flask and insists that Flask ought to be less worried about what might happen to the ship: even though Ahab’s behavior is reckless, it doesn’t necessarily mean anything bad is going to happen to them.
Lots of ships get away with some reckless behavior.