The sperm whale’s spout: what’s it all about?
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851).
Here is one of the more remarkable passages for thinking about Ishmael. “Composing a little treatise on Eternity,” as the air above his head worms and undulates: who is this narrator?
Also from Moby-Dick
“Nothing exists in itself” : Nantucket ≠ Illinois : Quoggy : “Round the world!” : Gam : On “true method”
[Elaine and I finished a first reading of Moby-Dick last night. Next stop: Willa Cather, A Lost Lady.]
Thursday, July 2, 2015
“A certain semi-visible steam”
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Glorious stuff. I never read Moby-Dick until I was almost forty, even though I had read Pierre and some other works long before. I'm itching to get back to it.
I’m planning to read more Melviille, esp. The Confidence-Man, which I haven’t read in many years.
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