The little white attic

Still reading  Matthew Selwyn's  ****, or, The Anatomy of Melancholy .  Look at this passage:  “Shoes off, I climb the stairs and dro...

On Matthew Selwyn's  ****, or, The Anatomy of Melancholy .  Swearwords, swearwords, swearwords. Rants. Ravings. Violence, tits, cocks...

Today's my birthday.  Older, hopefully a bit wiser. 

On Matthew Selwyn's  ****, or, The Anatomy of Melancholy .  “The chemist was closed, so I went to the movies instead; fat lot of goo...

I' ve just started reading ****, or, The Anatomy of Melancholy by Matthew Selwyn.  Unless I decide to put it down to get back to Melvi...

In "The Topicality of Depravity in "Benito Cereno"" (included in the Norton Critical Edition of Melville's Short Nov...

1/ Here is something I noticed- Melville's or the narrator's fondness for double negatives: - "With no small interest, Captai...

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Over the past few days, besides "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo", "The Lightning-Rod Man" and "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isle...

From Leviathan or, The Whale by Philip Hoare: 1/ “The beluga is the most vocal of all whales, known by sailors as the canary of the sea......