But the soul is a sort of intensely black pearl, which, though glimmering sometimes with an awful resplendence, is yet oftenest incrusted with an unbearable scurf.
— Herman Melville Modern

Moby-Dick

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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Date / Period

1852

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1616/1616-h/1616-h.htm

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