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Herman Melville · Moby-Dick (Opening)

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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;

I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

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