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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Study Guide

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by Daniel Quinn
About 78 pages (23,272 words)

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"And now, years after I'd given up the search, here comes some charlatan advertising in the newspaper for the very same young dreamer that I'd been fifteen years ago. "But this still doesn't explain my outrage, does it?" Chapter 1, p. 6.

"Neither one of us understood that the difficulty was insurmountable, owing to a lack of basic phonic equipment on my part. In the absence of that understanding, we both labored on under the impression that the knack would someday magically manifest itself in me if we persevered. But at last there came a day when I couldn't go on, and in my anguish at not being able to tell him this, I thought him this, with all the mental power I possessed. He was stunned - as was I when I saw that he'd heard.....

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