"What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast,
when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any
medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants."
...
"What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor
Ireland, but a Fast-Fish?"
...
"What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish..."
...
"What are the Rights of Man andthe Liberties of the World but
Loose-Fish?"
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"And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish,
too?
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
