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| Introduction | The Whale-ship Globe (n.): 1) The Globe was a whaling ship that was hijacked in 1824. The quotation comes from the Extracts of Moby-Dick. 2) Also, ‘The Whale-ship Globe’ proves that a ship can be a globe of its own: a whole, self-contained universe. 3) As a title, cf. ‘The Boston Globe’. [Whale: OE] [Ship: OE] [Globe: F, or f. L globus] |
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