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Moby Dick

Moby Dick, gemeint ist die Insel, die die Romanfigur Captain Ahab sucht

Moby Dick. Kapitel 17, Der Ramadan. online-literature.com http://www.online-literature.com/melville/mobydick/18/; übersetzt von Matthias Jendits. 6. Auflage, btb Verlag.
Original engl.: "Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans."

Moby Dick. Kapitel 35, Im Masttop

Moby Dick. Kapitel 7, Die Kirche. online-literature.com http://www.online-literature.com/melville/mobydick/8/; übersetzt von Matthias Jendits. 6. Auflage, btb Verlag.
Original engl.: "But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

Moby Dick. Kapitel 26, Ritter und Knappen. online-literature.com http://www.online-literature.com/melville/mobydick/27/; übersetzt von Matthias Jendits. 6. Auflage, btb Verlag.
Original engl.: "Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but, man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes."

Benito Cereno, Putnam's Monthly ( October 1855 http://books.google.com/books?id=TlYAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22In+armies+navies+cities+or+families+in+nature+herself+nothing+more+relaxes+good+order+than+misery%22&pg=PA356#v=onepage)

Bk. V, ch. 7
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)

Quelle: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21

Quelle: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 41

Quelle: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 7

Letter to Samuel Savage (24 August 1851), as published in The Writings of Herman Melville : The Northwestern-Newberry Edition (1993), edited by Lynn Horth, Vol. 14, p. 203

Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)

Bk. XXV, ch. 4
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)

Timoleon, Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century, Fragment 2

Quelle: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 1, First lines

Since at least 1954 this has also been published at times as "Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe…", apparently a typographical error.
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

This statement is usually attributed entirely to Melville, but the way he presents it in the story indicates that he might be quoting a lesser known author.
Quelle: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21

Quelle: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 27

Quelle: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 24

Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158

Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

I would to God Shakspeare had lived later, & promenaded in Broadway. Not that I might have had the pleasure of leaving my card for him at the Astor, or made merry with him over a bowl of the fine Duyckinck punch; but that the muzzle which all men wore on their soul in the Elizebethan day, might not have intercepted Shakspers full articulations. For I hold it a verity, that even Shakspeare, was not a frank man to the uttermost. And, indeed, who in this intolerant universe is, or can be? But the Declaration of Independence makes a difference.—There, I have driven my horse so hard that I have made my inn before sundown.
Letter to Evert Augustus Duyckinck (3 March 1849); published in The Letters of Herman Melville (1960) edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, p. 79

Because one did survive the wreck.
Epilogue
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851)