481 Moby Dick - 10 Essential Questions (Part One)
The History of Literature
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The Bird's Eye View
When did this book come into your life? So do you know, funnily enough, it's the book that the young Jane Eyre is reading at the beginning of that book. And then I had heard more about it and was sort of interested in birds... But I didn't see one and I didn't know how big it was. In fact, it's quite a small kind of regular paperback sort of format book in two volumes. It makes me realise, oh my God, we're just, we're nothing to them. We're just like sort of these comical little figures on the ground.
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