Monday, January 14, 2008

Fishy Humor

Fishy Humor

My wife is getting ready to teach a Great American Writers literature course (which includes Herman Melville), and it suddenly occurred to me that the first line of Melville's most famous novel, Moby Dick, must have suffered a serious typo in the first printing. It isn't, "Call me Ishmael." It's "Call me Fishmeal."

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