Herman Melville

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Today we are learning about Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish with Herman Melville!


Today marks the second week of work on Herman Melville's leviathan (he-he!) classic about sperm whale hunting: Moby-Dick. This story is about more than Man vs Nature, or Adventure on the High Seas or Avenging a Lost Leg. It's also about freedom. It's about the Law: of God, Nature, and Man. Even in International Waters, Ishmael and the gang of the Pequod are bound by the invisible (velvet) manacles of the social contract.

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