Moby Dick
The main-top-sail yard., Tashtego passing new lashings around it. “Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What’s the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don’t want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!”
End of chapter
Vesper stopped here. Sleep well.
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Moby Dick is free to read and free to read aloud. Herman Melville died in 1891, and copyright on a book ends a set number of years after its author dies — how many depends on the country. It has been out of copyright since 1942 in countries that use the Berne Convention minimum of 50 years, 1962 in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada and 1992 in Mexico, which protects an author for 100 years — the longest term anywhere. Standard Ebooks produced this edition and released their own editing, markup and cover work under CC0, so nothing was added back on top.
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Vesper fades out over the last twenty-five seconds, so it never cuts.