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Great Moby Cities and War
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| My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, | |
| my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit | |
| than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. But you can | |
| call me Ishmael. | |
| It was a dark and stormy night during the best of times and the worst of | |
| times when I came to realize that all children, except one, grow up. The | |
| other awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into | |
| a monstrous vermin! Then the cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the | |
| retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. Clearly, | |
| there was no possibility of taking a walk that day; it was the day my | |
| grandmother exploded. | |
| All this happened, more or less, far out in the uncharted backwaters of the | |
| unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy. |
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