Ahab ascends to the deck of the ship where he finds the carpenter turning Queequeg's coffin into a life buoy. Ahab asks the carpenter the meaning of his work and if he was not the one to also make Ahab's leg. Ahab ponders the meaning of a person who makes things for both the living and the dead. He also contemplates the idea that the coffin is being turned.....
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