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“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 ago
    Is there something you want to tell us about having read Herman Melville's classic American epic novel Moby Dick (1851)?
  • layer8 1y ago
    It’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.