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It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the book—on risk of a lumbago & sciatics. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Sept. 12 or 19?, 1851, to Sarah Huyler Morewood. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). On Moby-Dick.

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