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The Iconoclast
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Moby Dick
Oh, all right then, my "theory" of book names doesn't stand up to close scrutiny. But does Moby Dick stand up?
 
Of these many titles then, only three (though a very important three)—Ulysses, Lolita, and Moby Dick –consist of “a name [i.e., of a person] or a place.”

Moby Dick isn't a person or a place. It's a whale. 

It could also be disease, perhaps something you get if you bend sinister.

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7 Aug 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald

Moby Dick is described above as something that “could also be a disease, perhaps something you get if you bend sinister.” Or, perhaps something you get if you bend down, sister.”

 


7 Aug 2008
Esmerelda Weatherwax

The Moby Dick is also a pub, on the A12. Good carvery.



7 Aug 2008
Alan

 

"Trivia for 'Moby Dick '(1956)"

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049513/trivia
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