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Tweet"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."
Herman Melville in Moby-Dick
Originally Published Oct. 18, 1851
Digital edition:
556 pages - March 24, 2011