Revenge in Moby-Dick

A Clean Well Lighted Place. The Crotch Chapter Themes and Colors Key. As the narrator rightly points out, this is not true cetology, which he will provide for us during the story. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about- however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way- either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.