“The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
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Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851)
“The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?”
Because one did survive the wreck.
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Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851)
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