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To: HIDEK6

“You can always look to Herman Melville for inspiration.”

How true, but you can’t start EVERY book with, “Call me Ishmael.”


72 posted on 12/23/2024 10:29:07 AM PST by Spaceman49
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To: Spaceman49
How true, but you can’t start EVERY book with, “Call me Ishmael.”

Melville had spent literally days, writing and re-writing that first line, polishing it until it gleamed like a newly-cut jewel!

"Call me Arnold."

"Call me Bill."

"Call me Charlie."

"Call me Derek."

"Call me ..."

Regards,

125 posted on 02/04/2025 11:35:33 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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