Moby-Dick marathon
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Ishmael’s chowder
If you read the “Illuminations” in the back of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, there is a recipe for roasting a certain kind of nut … but it’s a… Read more »
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And then we all giggled at the sperm-squeezing chapter
I am unsure of Moby-Dick’s place in our canon. I have my doubts about whether it is the Great American Novel, or even whether it is Herman Melville’s best work.… Read more »
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