Melville
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Moby-Dick – Chapters I-XVIII – Quick Check-In
Though dreadfully behind on Brona’s readalong, I am still plugging away at this American tome and really savoring it. This is my second time reading Moby-Dick, the first time being nearly a decade ago. The familiar scenes and phrases are coming back to me like old friends. NASA Johnson Space Center – Earth Sciences and Continue reading
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Some Bookish Pictures
Every so often, I get an urge to do something crafty. “Crafty” here means having to do with crafts, not cunning plans (though it may amount to the same thing). Today was one of those days, so I stopped by ye olde curiosity shoppe Dollar Tree and picked up some frames, because I’m cheap that Continue reading
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Wednesday Quote: Courage
“‘I will have no man in my boat,’ said Starbuck, ‘who is not afraid of a whale.’ By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous Continue reading
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Melville’s "Mosses" – from an Old Mast
The actual title of the book is Billy Budd and Other Stories, published by Penguin Classics. However, there is such a similarity in the writing, I was reminded of the title of a Hawthorne collection, Mosses from an Old Manse. Since Hawthorne was the dedicatee of Moby-Dick and also referenced by name in one of these Continue reading
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