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Interesting that you are reading the man as a random black guy.
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Hey Rick,
To be clear, I got the reference to the Moby Dick character. But yes, I pictured an ordinary person. What I was saying is that the locals see him in the the way that Ishmael might initially view Queequeg: frightening, exotic, threatening. In the world of the poem is he someone actually covered in tattoos? Interesting.