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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say? Not only is it the classic's classic, but it's also a fascinating read. The biblical references are a bit heavy-handed, but my only real complaint is that Melville could have used an editor to help him trim back the long digressions into the technicalities of whaling or the debate on whether whales are fish or mammals (interestingly, Melville concludes that they are fish...)]]></body>
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