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Fool’s Gold (Notes on Lodge 49), pt 1
Last time, on Suspended Reason… Why is [Moby Dick] white? He is white, and very much blank, because he personifies […] the indefinable, “the universe” rather than the world of people, that which refuses to be nailed down to a particular meaning. […] Each character has a different response to the unknowable white whale, who…
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