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Tut, tut, Stitchawl. How is anyone going to recognise that as paraphrasing the start of Moby Dick if you change the name of the narrator? (I seem to remember discussion on another thread here about "Call me Ishmael." being among the most recognisable first sentences.) I do particularly like the bit:
whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
I've had days like that, although going to sea to solve it had never occurred to me.
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