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This character, who reads a book by counting 50-page blocks, seems to say “it’s a mutual, joint-stock world” after he saves a drowning “bumpkin.” While everyone else reads marble memorial tablets, this character alone notices a man who fears that two horns portend their gallows. An “attendant” imagines himself as the Loom of Time’s shuttle as this man weaves a mat with a sword. This man’s head is compared to George Washington’s by the narrator, (10[3])who opens this man’s door in panic after he locks it to fast during his “Ramadan.” (10[1])This prince of Rokovoko, (10[1]-5[1])who smokes a tomahawk-pipe, presses (10[1])his forehead to the narrator’s and declares (10[1])them “married,” (10[2])after (10[1])which they (10[1])jointly worship his black idol Yojo and make a “cosy, loving (10[1])pair” (10[2])in a bed at the Spouter Inn. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, the narrator becomes “bosom friends” with what tattooed harpooner in Moby-Dick? (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

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