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  • I would prefer not to.

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    "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1856)

  • I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)

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    Herman Melville, Peter Fish (1984). “Herman Melville's Moby-Dick”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

  • There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

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    Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press
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Herman Melville

  • Born: August 1, 1819
  • Died: September 28, 1891
  • Occupation: Novelist
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