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CR Episode 175: Moby Dick, Part I

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The Habit of Going to See

You can almost imagine him sitting at, you know, the common room in an inn and an amtucket. He's never quite directly straight with you. And perhaps we should say listener. There's a passage, a few paragraphs down that I think is worth reading in full about where he explains how he prefers to go to see. No, I never go as a passenger, nor though I am something of assault, do I ever go to see as a Commodore or a Captain or a cook. For my part, I abominate all honourable respectable toils, trials and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians

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