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"...he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married..." 

Things get hot and heavy -- physically and linguistically -- between Ishmael and Queequeg. Talia talks with brilliant Melville scholar Jordan Alexander Stein about Melville's wild soul; his love of Nathaniel Hawthorne; and the metaphysics of snuggling.