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excerpted from a quote of Don Pedro, a Spanish stereotype and frame-narrative foil in Melville's Moby Dick:
"Hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your
vigorous North."
See also the inaugural post.
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