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 in Moby Dick)
What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )
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