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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Melville, Herman

Melville, Herman
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Moby Dick: Chapters 10 - 29

Chapter X A Bosom Friend

Returning to the Spouter-Inn, Ishmael finds Queequeg silently whittling
at the nose of his little wooden idol, "Yojo." He watches Queequeg carefully,
and concludes that there is something naturally admirable about him despite
the grotesque tattooing on his face - "You cannot hide the soul," says
Ishmael, and Queequeg seems to have a noble soul. He is twenty thousand miles
from home, yet he preserves his own dignity and individuality, completely
self-sufficient in an alien culture. Ishmael's heart goes ...

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