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- # CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.
## Overview
This is a section from the novel *Moby-Dick; or, The Whale*, specifically labeled "CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.". It consists of a short passage of text extracted from lines 19529 to 19537 of the source file, [moby_dick.txt](arke:01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6).
## Context
This section is part of [CHAPTER III. (_Mealy-mouthed Porpoise_)](arke:01KG8AK83BA227D6NY5BT040FM) within the larger novel *Moby-Dick; or, The Whale*. The novel itself is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. This section is preceded by [CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.](arke:01KG8AMBF553SA7FE3XN6YK2AW) and followed by [CHAPTER 123. The Musket.](arke:01KG8AMBFCG7YHCRDSE5AKTJRX).
## Contents
The section contains a brief dialogue or monologue, seemingly from a character aloft on the main-top-sail yard during a thunderstorm. The character, possibly Tashtego, is heard complaining about the thunder and expressing a desire for rum. The stage direction indicates Tashtego is "passing new lashings around it."
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- CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.
_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!”
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- CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.