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May 11, 2006 1:56 pm

Here is an allusion I did not catch, though the readers of the time might well have. The Pequod or Pequoit are the name of an Indian tribe destroyed in the early battles with the Puritans.

Here is an account http://www.pthompson.addr.com/moby/mason.htm

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John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.

May 11, 2006 @ 1:56 pm
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