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Old 02-07-2022, 04:08 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Calenorn View Post
I was assigned Moby Dick the winter I was in tenth grade. The test was coming up the next day, and I was doomed. That night, a raging blizzard ensured that school would be closed the next day. There I was, snowed in, just me and Moby Dick.

I got a "B" on the test. Even after giving up on the whole thing when I encountered an entire chapter on "The Whiteness of the Whale."

"That whale was SO white...."

HOW ... WHITE ... WAS IT???
Tenth grade is too young for Moby Dick! No wonder people hate it.
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