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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 72 words
But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter sorter in the Post Office is equal to it. To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have ones hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing. What am I that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan. The awful tauntings in Job might well appal me.
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