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some years ago > Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on
by awinter-py 1y ago
some years ago
> Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world
- layer8 1y ago“Some years ago” isn’t a Moby Dick-ism, it’s perfectly normal English to open an anecdote with.
- awinter-py 1y ago'some years ago I went through a phase' in an introduction is plausibly a moby dick reference
- fluidcruft 1y agoIs there something you want to tell us about having read Herman Melville's classic American epic novel Moby Dick (1851)?
- layer8 1y agoIt’s really not. “Some years ago” is a very common phrase, completely unrelated to its occurrence in Moby Dick. Its use in Moby Dick isn’t iconic or anything like that.