Gallimard in 1941. If this is the case, then the page numbers correspond to these page numbers in the Everyman edition and refer more or less to the following episodes:
120—p. 114: of chapter XXX. Ahab’s leg.
121—p. 115: beginning of chapter XXXI.
123—p. 117. Whether a whale be a fish.
129—pp. 122–3. Black Fish—Narwhal.
173–7—pp. 163–7: chapter XLI. The Whiteness of the Whale.
203—p. 192. “Now the advent of these outlandish strangers …”
209—p. 197. Queequeg as the standard bearer “hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.”
241—p. 227: chapter LIII. The Town-Ho’s story of how the mate Radney was eaten by Moby Dick.
310—p. 290. The Right Whale’s Head.
313—end of chapter LXXIV. Resolution in facing death.
339—pp. 317–18: end of chapter LXXXII, beginning of chapter LXXXIII.
373—p. 350: chapter XC. The smell of the Rosebud.
415—pp. 393–4: chapter CIII.
452—p. 420: chapter CXXII. The tempering of the harpoon.
457—p. 425. The meeting with the Bachelor.
460—p. 248: beginning of chapter CXVI.
472—pp. 438–9: chapter CXX.
485—p. 451: end of chapter CXXV.
499—p. 463: beginning of chapter CXXX, “The Symphony.” Ahab weeps into the sea.
503—p. 480. Moby Dick breaks Ahab’s ivory leg.
520—end of chapter CXXXIII.
522—p. 482. “I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick.” It should be noted that there is a difference in the chapter numberings between the French translation and the Everyman edition referred to here. Thus, the French edition is consistently one chapter number ahead, so that chapter CXXXIV in the Everyman edition is chapter CXXXV in the French edition. The chapter headings here refer to the Everyman edition. —P.T.

4 In Melville, the metaphor suggests the dream, but from a concrete, physical starting point. In Mardi, for example, the hero comes across “huts of flame.” They are built, simply, of red tropical creepers, whose leaves are momentarily lifted by the wind.

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