Breakfast

[ladychapel]

Ishmael has a good sense of humor and laughs off the night's misadventures. At breakfast, he notices that all the whalemen around the table seem surprisingly shy. Queequeg is an exception. He commandeers the head of the table and pulls a serving of rare steaks to himself with his harpoon. "But that was certainly very cooly done by him, and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly," says Ishmael.

I've been crossposting these observations about what I'm reading from Dreamwidth to LJ. I just discovered today I can choose the same icon in both journals if they use the same keyword. I like that. I'm going to use my old dove icon for crossposting.