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In reply to an interviewer who suggested that [...there was] 'some correspondence between Invisible Man's Prologue and that of Moby Dick,' Ellison countered: 'Let me test something on you'—whereupon he read the opening lines from chapter one of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, and concluded, chuckling, 'That ain't Melville.'
In reply to an interviewer who suggested that [...there was] 'some correspondence between Invisible Man's Prologue and that of Moby Dick,' Ellison countered: 'Let me test something on you'—whereupon he read the opening lines from chapter one of Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, and concluded, chuckling, 'That ain't Melville.'