This is the first fat 19th century book I really love (almost all of my faves tend to be small-ish: Lermontov, Nerval, von Kleist, Lenz). Maybe Portrait of a Lady or The Devils.
The Moby Dick twitter account is wonderful. As well as comments on here and Melville's The Confidence Man it was the thing that actually made me try it. Need to read Bartleby next.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 09:11 (eight years ago) link
"First, we must ask, does it have to be a whale?"#RejectionLetterQuote for Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville. pic.twitter.com/WZBVCrb2RE— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 3, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
^^^this is the edition i have -- wit the rockwell kent illustrations -- and it's lovely
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
been working my way through this, they finally mentioned the whale and i'm 400 iPad pages in
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
the book is awesome tho
the "whiteness of the whale" chapter was...quite something.
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
hit my stopping point last night at the end of chapter 31, tonight we get CETOLOGY.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
If y'all want fun, read Clarel.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link