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“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”
“And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, hed mused, that most people will never find their call me Ishmael.”
“In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he f...”
“Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.”