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by awinter-py 368 days ago
'some years ago I went through a phase' in an introduction is plausibly a moby dick reference
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layer8 368 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 368 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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