creature

squid

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Properties

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description
A large marine cephalopod whose rare appearance is interpreted by the crew, with Starbuck seeing it as a portent and Queequeg as a sign of whales.
habitat
ocean
significance
omen or sign of whales

Relationships

  • referenced_byStarbuck
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    views
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    source_text
    If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents
  • referenced_byQueequeg
    context
    interprets
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    source_text
    to Queequeg it was quite a different object. “When you see him ’quid,” said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow of his hoisted boat, “then you quick see him ’parm whale.”
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T00:08:09.956Z
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