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"In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans."

Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville

Original Publication
Oct. 18, 1851
Digital edition
March 24, 2011
556 pages

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