The Moby-Dick Bible
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Provocative

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal’s jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?

Chapter 65, The Whale as a Dish · verse 10

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