Round 11: Tossup 17

As a child, this character was visited by a “silent form” after being sent to bed early for trying to climb the chimney. A “prophet” named Elijah warns this character about an “ungodly, god-like man.” (10[1])This character describes the “bridegroom clasp” of a man he later describes as “George Washington cannibalistically developed.” After rooming with that man at a hotel owned by Peter Coffin called the Spouter Inn, this character is roused by Father Mapple’s sermon about Jonah. This character is the only survivor of the Pequod’s destruction by a whale. For 10 points, what character’s name follows the words “call me” in the first line of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick? ■END■

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