The little white attic

Bad/ good news for you: I’ve finished reading Moby Dick , but I’m not done blogging about whales.  This is a passage from Philip Hoare’s L...

1/ In Leviathan or, The Whale , Philip Hoare refers to a line from Algernon Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon : "... all the sounds of t...

How about words in different languages? How does it apply for someone like me, who kinda speaks 3 languages at very different levels?  ...

That is Raymond Weaver on Moby Dick . He quotes Melville as saying:  "Like a frigate, I am full with a thousand souls; and as on, on...

1/ Speaking of whales alone, Melville writes about everything you need to know about whales: different species of whales; length, weight, he...

Captain Ahab is a character, but also a concept (like Bartleby).  Here is James McIntosh on Ahab (in an essay called "The Mariner'...

Whilst other people write about water metaphors (Ishmael) and fire or sun metaphors (Ahab, and his dark shadow the prophet Fedallah), I'...

This is probably 1 of those chapters that most people forget, so I have to write about it. Look at these lines in the 1st paragraph (the al...

http://www.themillions.com/2011/05/the-stockholm-syndrome-theory-of-long-novels.html 1/ I've been reading Moby Dick for over a month....

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