This new edition of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick or, the Whale" contains the complete text, with one small transformation: each word occurs only once. After a word appears, it evaporates forever, never to be seen again. One by one, words vanish without a trace, grammar falters, and sentences splinter, leaving a trail of orphaned punctuation in their wake—the flotsam cargo of a foundering ship. [From the preface]