You slip and hit your head trying to post "mine peanuts horts." After a moment of blackness, you awaken. Wind is howling. It's a New England winter. You have little to no money in your purse, and one thing is clear--Moby Dick must die.
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I read that book near the end of 2020 & in the very first chapter Ishmael describes a fictional set of headlines if he went to sea:
Grand Contested Election for Presidency of the United States
Whaling Voyage by One Ishmael
Bloody Battle in Afghanistan
Afghanistan was on the frontiers of the 19th-century British Empire, which fought two wars there, and many more minor skirmishes. In the original Conan Doyle stories, Watson was an Afghanistan war vet...
And one thing is clear, I must go on a ten page tangent about the minutia of scrimshaw and it's broader impact on New England society. And it will be glorious.
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Grand Contested Election for Presidency of the United States
Whaling Voyage by One Ishmael
Bloody Battle in Afghanistan
...I did a double take.