Melville: Well, it took three days, but I’m done. I have written the great American novel.
Aloysius: I find that hard to believe. Let metake a look.
Melville: Here! 825 pages of the finest prose to grace the American page.
Aloysius: “Call me Ishmael”.
Aloysius: ...
Aloysius: This is Moby-Dick.
Melville: And I retyped the whole thing!
