# Great American Novel

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Feb 1999*

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### David_Lebling
*05 Feb 1999, 10:11*

One minor correction to corncrake's masterful exegesis:  Queequeg is pretty
clearly a Pacific islander, not an Andean.

I would add (at least):

Survival:      floats on coffin               floats on table

     -- Dave Lebling
     (aka vizcacha)

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