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Moe B Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville.

Chapter one.

Loomings.

Call me Ishmael.

Some years ago, never mind how long precisely, having little or no money in my purse, and

nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little,

and see the watery part of the world.

It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is a 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.

And especially whenever my hippos get such an upper hand of me that it requires a

strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically

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