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Did you have a sequel in mind when you wrote Ishmael? More to the point, did you purposefully write Alan Lomax as being a possessive, self-centered egoist, or were these just qualities you extracted from him when they were needed to fit into the story-line of My Ishmael?

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Why doesn’t the narrator of Ishmael have a name?

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Why did the narrator in Ishmael tell us practically nothing about his past, and why was he nameless?

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Why is Ishmael’s pupil so dumb?

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Why is Ishmael’s pupil a man rather than a woman?

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