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by awinter-py 374 days ago
why the H does this have the same opening line as moby dick

why are emacs users like this
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dpassens 374 days ago
I'm not seeing any "Call me Ishmael".
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awinter-py 374 days ago
some years ago

> 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

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layer8 374 days ago
“Some years ago” isn’t a Moby Dick-ism, it’s perfectly normal English to open an anecdote with.
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awinter-py 374 days ago
'some years ago I went through a phase' in an introduction is plausibly a moby dick reference
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layer8 374 days ago
It’s really not. “Some years ago” is a very common phrase, completely unrelated to its occurrence in Moby Dick. Its use in Moby Dick isn’t iconic or anything like that.
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fluidcruft 374 days ago
Is there something you want to tell us about having read Herman Melville's classic American epic novel Moby Dick (1851)?
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