The White Whale
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The White _____ Humor columnist Dave Barry once gave potential English majors some advice using Moby-Dick as an example: Never say anything about a...
The Gold Doubloon
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Gold, Hard CashCaptain Ahab’s not in his monomaniacal revenge quest for the money, but he knows how to motivate his crew: he nails a gold doubloon t...
Sperm and Spermaceti
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Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter... Oh, Wait. Melville's Mind Is Already There.As Ishmael tells us something like ten million times, the Pequod is out...
Queequeg’s Coffin
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More Ironic Than A Retro T-ShirtWhen Queequeg falls deathly ill with a fever and thinks he’s dying, one of the things that’s most important to him...