27 books
—
6 voters
Moby Dick
“
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the science
...more
”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“
Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor and smuggled into a book addressed to the most puritanical reading public the world has ever known a chapter on the whale’s foreskin and got away with it.
”
― Changing Places
― Changing Places
5 members,
last active 9 years ago
44 members,
last active 5 years ago
2,461 members,
last active 5 days ago
































