Etymology / Extracts (front matter)
The 'Late Consumptive Usher' and 'Sub-Sub-Librarian' offer a comic-melancholy frame for the vast literary tradition the novel will absorb.
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From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The novel's strange front matter—an etymology and pages of literary quotations about whales—announces its encyclopedic, citational ambition.
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