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Caliban, in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus Uranus (y  rā`nəs, y..... Click the link for more information. . Caliban his name is anagram of cannibal. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest] See : Cannibalism Caliban misshapen “missing link.” [Br. Lit.: The Tempest] See : Monsters
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"You are a sort of monster," I added audaciously, "a Caliban who has pondered Setebos, and who acts as you act, in idle moments, by whim and fancy. If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. You are still yourself as now, and yet you are yourself no longer; you who, like Ariel, verge on the angelic, are but an inert mass, which, like Caliban, verges on the brutal; and this is called in human tongues, as I tell you, neither more nor less than apoplexy. |
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Caliban
