> Where's that girl? - there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with - 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' - might as well kill both birds at once
Why did no one warn me that this was a comedy.
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The book is surprisingly funny in gentle doses. The chapter regarding Queequeg and Ishmael's eating of chowder provided some laughter for me.