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This may be a trick question. The very famous opening line of Chapter 1 is "Call me Ishmael," but there are two prefatory chapters in front of that. The very un-famous first line of the first of these, Etymology, is "The pale Usher--threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now."

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