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March 20, 2017 By Martin

Fictional places & states of mind: Rokovoko

“Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Filed Under: Literature, Naming, Quotes Tagged With: character names, fictional places, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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