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The whole chapter is amazing. Works as a standalone short story.
He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The whole chapter is amazing. Works as a standalone short story.
Nine books
1. Moby Dick (nothing like you think it'd be)
2. Infinite Jest
3. Plant life of Banks Peninsula
4. Something Happened
5. Homage to Catalonia
6. The Other Side of Eden
7. Against the Grain — a Deep History of the Early States
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Pathway of the birds
1. Moby Dick (nothing like you think it'd be)
2. Infinite Jest
3. Plant life of Banks Peninsula
4. Something Happened
5. Homage to Catalonia
6. The Other Side of Eden
7. Against the Grain — a Deep History of the Early States
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Pathway of the birds
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Nine books
1. Moby Dick (nothing like you think it'd be)
2. Infinite Jest
3. Plant life of Banks Peninsula
4. Something Happened
5. Homage to Catalonia
6. The Other Side of Eden
7. Against the Grain — a Deep History of the Early States
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Pathway of the birds
1. Moby Dick (nothing like you think it'd be)
2. Infinite Jest
3. Plant life of Banks Peninsula
4. Something Happened
5. Homage to Catalonia
6. The Other Side of Eden
7. Against the Grain — a Deep History of the Early States
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Pathway of the birds
It continues: " ; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs."
Melville was the best to ever do it.
Melville was the best to ever do it.
carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It continues: " ; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs."
Melville was the best to ever do it.
Melville was the best to ever do it.
Unbelievable prose.
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
May 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Unbelievable prose.
You can't do better than Meliville...
in the forehead’s wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer
April 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
You can't do better than Meliville...