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Old 09-09-2006, 10:34 AM   #1
mike toro
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The Pipe Smoker

I'm reading Moby Dick and came across the pipe smoker this morning:

"What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good humor of his; that thing much have been his pipe. For, like his nose, his short black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe. He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of hand; and, whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in readiness anew. For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his leg into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth."

The next paragraph is a good argument against the smoke Nazis:

"I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his perculiar disposition; for every one knoews that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; as and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent."

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