version

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"There's a most doleful and most mocking funeral! The sea-vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled. In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral they most piously do pounce. Oh, horrible vulturism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free."
 

luka

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the novel is pretty good. certainly not twee. great characters and some good episodes too.
 

luka

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also i didnt skip anything what i did was recommended skipping bits becasue a lot of it is excruciatingly boring and also stupid. about 30% of it. so you can have a much more satisfactory reading experience by skipping.
 

version

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also i didnt skip anything what i did was recommended skipping bits becasue a lot of it is excruciatingly boring and also stupid. about 30% of it. so you can have a much more satisfactory reading experience by skipping.
Surely it's all in there for a reason though? I can never bring myself to skip things like that.
 

luka

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I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in
America, from Folsom cave to now. I spell it large because
it comes large here. Large, and without mercy.


i hate this blowhard rhetoric
 

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luka

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they easy availability of trivia is a menace. the surplus of trivia, of 'facts' is a menace.
 

luka

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of course he has.

The beginning of man was salt sea, and the perpetual
reverberation of that great ancient fact, constantly re-
newed in the unfolding of life in every human individual,
is the important single fact about Melville^ Pelagic/^

He had the tradition in him, deep, in his brain, his
words, the salt beat of his blood. He had the sea of him-
self in a vigorous, stricken way, as Poe the street. It en-
abled him to draw up from Shakespeare. It made Noah,
and Moses, contemporary to him. History was ritual and j
repetition when Melville's imagination was at its own
proper beat.

this is bullshit. olson is a bullshit artist.
 
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