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Re: Color name for Statue of Liberty Sculpture #3450
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lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 06:22:56 GMT
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Erik Olson wrote in message ...
> I don't consider myself illiterate, but when we started the naming • discussion, I
> immediately thought of Melville, who writes at length, in one of those • splendid
> asides in Moby Dick, about verdigris, the pearly-grey substance obtained • from
> whale's innards, of no particular use, which excites unusual bravado among
> whalers, who risk all else to claim it--above all other fruits of the sea-
> roads....
That would be AMBERgris...
Kevin
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