Chapter 1 (Loomings)
The famous 'Call me Ishmael' opening, including the description of going to sea 'whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul.'
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From Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The novel's iconic opening establishes Ishmael as narrator, his existential restlessness, and the sea as cure for the soul's 'damp, drizzly November.'
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