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  • Questionable Content: "Life's short, you gotta stop and smell the first-edition Melvilles along the way."
  • Unsounded: In the author's own words, "Unsounded is full of references to Melville’s life and work, both subtle and thematic, and blatant. One recent blatant reference is our pig friend: stuck full of spears with a corpse hanging off him by a rope. Very White Whale. If he hadn’t struck Lemuel, Roger’s entourage would have slaughtered him since he saw them. If that wasn’t the fickle hand of God, leading Danila to his death one moment and sparing Lemuel’s life the next, I don’t know what is. A more brick-in-the-face allusion [Chapter 14] is Captain Claggart, who is named after a character from Billy Budd (and who acts a bit like him)."

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