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by sandworm101
85 days ago
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Which doesnt matter. What maters is whether melville thought it to be true when he wrote the line. The joke/reference would have been understood by readers at the time regardless of whether it was factually true. 2010. Archibishop of New Orleans. Alligator is "fish". Whether or not the pope has an opinion, such things are not fiction. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/27/175058833/fo... |
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