Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.
Ray BradburyTags: shakespeare william-shakespeare moby-dick ouija herman-melville
but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade
Herman MelvilleTags: moby-dick spade herman-melville grave-digger
In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls.
David Foster WallaceTags: sea pip ocean moby-dick jaws the-sea herman-melville oceanic stephen-crane the-ocean the-castaway
It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.
Django WylieTags: truth writing writing-craft wordplay jane-austen pride-and-prejudice moby-dick writing-life herman-melville
and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.
Herman MelvilleTags: intelligence innocence sailor herman-melville billy-budd
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
Herman MelvilleTags: truth society moby-dick ishmael profundity herman-melville
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