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BOOK II (Octavo), CHAPTER III (Narwhale).
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BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER VI (Sulphur Bottom).
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BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER IV (Hump Back).
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"The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters…."
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BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER II (Right Whale).
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BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER I (Sperm Whale).
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"To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. There you have him."
Occupy Writers, Salinger the Cruise Director, and More
Writers in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement have launched a website; the Appalachian Prison Book Project has lost its funding; Columbia professor James Shapiro has some choice items to say about Anonymous, the new Roland Emmerich film; and other news.
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"As yet, however, the Sperm Whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life."
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
The first volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, published last month by Cambridge University Press, collects the correspondence of the Nobel Prize winner, including postcards, telegrams, and drafts of letters, written between 1907 and 1922 and never intended for publication.
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