Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real...

Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it- a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.
— Melville, Moby Dick

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