
CR Episode 175: Moby Dick, Part I
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The Ambiguity of the Name of Abraham
The ambiguity of calling the character Ishmael is his name actually, Ishmael. He's casting himself a drift on the wave. Sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It makes it sound like it's driven by sort of boredom, you know? Nothing else to do. And then the more he continues, the more improbable it becomes. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is damp, drizzly November in my soul,. whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet. "Whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me that it requires a strong moral
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