Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've … - Laurie Anderson

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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Laurie Anderson

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

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