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Thar She Prose! A Moby Marathon; Melville Fans Stage 24-Hour Reading Aboard Mystic Ship
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910802
Author:Ken Ringle
Just when we thought it was safe to plunge back into literature without all those dead white men oppressing us with their politically incorrect Eurocentric Western values, up sails an event that threatens us anew.
The sixth annual marathon reading of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" wound up today at Mystic Seaport, aboard the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, with a white cake in honor of the author's 172nd birthday.
Tourists and teachers, seamen and scholars joined in applauding the writer who in one book managed to memorialize the killing of whales, villainize the handicapped, celebrate ...
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