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... Moby - Dick , for a people of Ishmaels . " ( 15 ) A visionary alienated from twentieth century America , Olson sees the country as inhabi- ted by a " people of Ishmaels " fulfilling the Biblical prophesy told in Genesis . There the ...
... Moby - Dick , for a people of Ishmaels . " ( 15 ) A visionary alienated from twentieth century America , Olson sees the country as inhabi- ted by a " people of Ishmaels " fulfilling the Biblical prophesy told in Genesis . There the ...
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... Moby - Dick , less than one - tenth its length . Other parallels are not obvious from the contents page ; they must be inferred after reading Ishmael . But even before proceeding too deeply into Olson's text , it is clear that the ...
... Moby - Dick , less than one - tenth its length . Other parallels are not obvious from the contents page ; they must be inferred after reading Ishmael . But even before proceeding too deeply into Olson's text , it is clear that the ...
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... Moby - Dick , he has had glimpses of " that mor- tally intolerable truth ; that all deep , earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea ; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth ...
... Moby - Dick , he has had glimpses of " that mor- tally intolerable truth ; that all deep , earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea ; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth ...
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