{"id":108,"date":"2025-10-04T14:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmann.mgdstudent.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2025-10-04T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:46:04","slug":"welcome-fellow-contemplators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cmann.mgdstudent.com\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome fellow contemplators"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"108\" class=\"elementor elementor-108\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63fbe15 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63fbe15\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-321ba61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"321ba61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Where the elite meet to ruminate<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d77096 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1d77096\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96b9098 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"96b9098\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Welcome fellow contemplators<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f2c639a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1f2c639a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c77daf7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"c77daf7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-712f888 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"712f888\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-408ec79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"408ec79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/cmann.mgdstudent.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Welcome-Featured-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Fellow Contemplators featured image\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmann.mgdstudent.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Welcome-Featured-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/cmann.mgdstudent.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Welcome-Featured.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>&#8220;Aye, I see!\u2014wanted to part it; free the fast-fish\u2014an old trick\u2014I know him.&#8221;<\/em><\/h6><p>&#8220;How it was exactly,&#8221; continued the one-armed commander, &#8220;I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn&#8217;t know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale&#8217;s; that went off to windward, all fluking. Seeing how matters stood, and what a noble great whale it was\u2014the noblest and biggest I ever saw, sir, in my life\u2014I resolved to capture him, spite of the boiling rage he seemed to be in. And thinking the hap-hazard line would get loose, or the tooth it was tangled to might draw (for I have a devil of a boat&#8217;s crew for a pull on a whale-line); seeing all this, I say, I jumped into my first mate&#8217;s boat\u2014Mr. Mounttop&#8217;s here (by the way, Captain\u2014Mounttop; Mounttop\u2014the captain);\u2014as I was saying,<\/p><p>I jumped into Mounttop&#8217;s boat, which, d&#8217;ye see, was gunwale and gunwale with mine, then; and snatching the first harpoon, let this old great-grandfather have it. But, Lord, look you, sir\u2014hearts and souls alive, man\u2014the next instant, in a jiff, I was blind as a bat\u2014both eyes out\u2014all befogged and bedeadened with black foam\u2014the whale&#8217;s tail looming straight up out of it, perpendicular in the air, like a marble steeple. No use sterning all, then; but as I was groping at midday, with a blinding sun, all crown-jewels; as I was groping, I say, after the second iron, to toss it overboard\u2014down comes the tail like a Lima tower, cutting my boat in two, leaving each half in splinters; and, flukes first, the white hump backed through the wreck, as though it was all chips. 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