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Feb 07, 2020
TIL that Herman Melville had difficulty finding a publisher for Moby Dick. In a letter to Melville, one publisher asked "why does it have to be a whale?" and suggested that Captain Ahab struggle with "a depravity towards young, perhaps voluptuous, maidens" instead.
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