“Call me Ishmael” is, of course, the first sentence of “Moby Dick.” Thus the joke. Yes, I know that it was Captain Ahab, not Ishmael the narrator, who was obsessed with the white whale.
“Call me Ishmael” is, of course, the first sentence of “Moby Dick.” Thus the joke. Yes, I know that it was Captain Ahab, not Ishmael the narrator, who was obsessed with the white whale.