Daniel Bailey's Blog, page 20

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here is a close-up nature photo of a scar on a squirrel’s...

here is a close-up nature photo of a scar on a squirrel’s tail

here is a nature photo of a subterranean driveway built by...

here is a nature photo of a subterranean driveway built by people

"As the boats now more closely surrounded him, the whole upper part of his form, with much of it that..."

“As the boats now more closely surrounded him, the whole upper part of his form, with much of it that is ordinarily submerged, was plainly revealed. His eyes, or rather the places where his eyes had been, were beheld. As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale’s eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see. But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.”

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MOBY DICK, chapter 81 (via kenbaumann)

melville took an america-selfie

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