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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Federico's Discussion Questions

12/11/12
Chapter (10-16)
1.- In Page 55 the last sentence says, “I concluded that, Like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have ‘broken his digesters’ ”. What does it mean by “broken his digesters” what was Melville trying to say with this phrase?

2.- In page 74 at the top it says, “For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.  But, as yet have not to do with such an one, but with quite another; and still a man who, if indeed peculiar, it only results again from another phase of the Quaker modified by individual circumstances.” How is his paragraph describing the Nantucket men?

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