The Moby-Dick Bible
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Literary Motifs › Inequality

Inequality

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

What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? What to the rapacious landlord is the widow’s last mite but a Fast-Fish? What is yonder undetected villain’s marble mansion with a door-plate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish?

Chapter 89, Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish · verse 12

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