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What else?
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Anything else you noticed?
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Well, I'm going to start, actually, a little bit closer to home,
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in the American tradition.
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I'm going to start with Moby-Dick.
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This is my lineup of texts that I am going to use today
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to talk about Blood Meridian.
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So, I want to start with Moby Dick.
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This is probably the single most important book for McCarthy,
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beside the Bible,
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as a source for both language, character, ideas, moral questions.
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All kinds of things come from Moby-Dick.