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ahab confirmed for egg
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Unironically please touch grass.
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Please stop defacing books with crayons.
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Or was Stubb the egg?
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I could be wrong but I don't think this is what Herman Melville had in mind
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>next line talks about his bigotry
trannies lost
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>>23830518
Melville was consciously thinking of Maori/high yeller. The white man being an egg slipped out the cloaca of his pen is.
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>>23831543
What in God's name are you on about
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>>23831804
Ishmael is black.
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>>23827282
>the queenly personality lives in me and feels her royal rights
What did Ahab mean by this?
>>23831809
This is an embarassing pseudointellectual take that only leftists repeat. Especially when you consider that Ishmael is an alternate version of Melville himself and even more obviously an upper middle class white guy from a declined family.



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