Meaning: Resources, security, stability (Labyrinthos)
Depiction: A group of people, men, women, and children, and which includes Bildad and Peleg, stands before the Pequod which is moored in the harbor. They are clustered around a single giant doubloon, the pentacle of this suit. The group as a whole represents the owners/investors of the Pequod who were intended to reap the profits of this voyage.
Depiction: A group of people, men, women, and children, and which includes Bildad and Peleg, stands before the Pequod which is moored in the harbor. They are clustered around a single giant doubloon, the pentacle of this suit. The group as a whole represents the owners/investors of the Pequod who were intended to reap the profits of this voyage.
Text: Chapter 16 - The Ship
It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship. People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest.
It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship. People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest.
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Comments: Another interesting story never told is what became of these people in the aftermath of the wreck of the Pequod.
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