I want not to record the annals
of the island of Nantucket -
its inhabitants have no annals
for they are not a race of warriors.
.. and there they found an empty ivory
casket ..
J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur
ibid.
Letter IV
1782
Doubleday, 1966©
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick, or The Whale
1851
Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker,
G. Thomas Tanselle, editors
Northwestern University Press and
The Newberry Library, 1988©
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