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Where else do you see it?
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Okay. You're not talkative today.
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Let's try something easier.
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I'd like to read the first sentence of the novel:
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"My name is Ruth."
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What can we say about that sentence as the opening sentence of a novel?
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Any thoughts or observations about it?
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-Yes. -It recalls Moby-Dick.
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Yes. It absolutely does.
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And what's the first line of Moby-Dick?
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"Call me Ishmael."
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"Call me-- " Oh, in chorus. That was beautiful.