Moby Dick Chapter 32

In which the narrator embarks upon the vast and tangled ocean of cetological knowledge, endeavouring to classify the leviathans of the deep by their sizes and peculiar traits, dividing them into Folios, Octavos, and Duodecimos, and thereby demystifying the various whales from the majestic sperm to the lively porpoise. With a scholarly yet humble tone, he surveys the known and unknown, the hunted and elusive, weaving a tentative system that acknowledges both the grandeur and the enigmatic nature of these sea creatures.