"What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly!"
—from chapter 9 of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, "The Sermon"
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Melville has delved into chapter 1 of the Old Testament book of Jonah and studied well. This is a Bible study of sorts, couched as a fictional sermon. It is also foreshadowing of a magnitude as yet unseen in the novel.
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