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Heroin addicts have been known to say that it is
hard to realize how much pain you are in every day of your life until
you have tried heroin. Something similar can be said of Moby Dick: It
is hard to realize just how big a void there is in your life until you
have read Moby Dick. It's so good. What other book written in the last
200 years has the main character in bed in the arms of a cannibal within
the first 20 pages? I suppose part of the reason I like Moby Dick is
because it is filled with awe at the strangeness and beauty of life,
and one who studies biology can't help but feel the same. On the down
side, Starbuck's coffee was named after the first mate in Moby Dick.
This is a bad thing and very wrong and is why I never drink Starbuck's
coffee.
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