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“It’s about the real story which was the inspiration for Moby-Dick. It’s about a whale ship that got rammed by a whale, and they had to survive out on the ocean for months. It’s really interesting to read those accounts and think people actually went through this. It blows my mind reading about naval history sometimes.” Read more...
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