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Moby Dick Explained: Chapter 19 – The Prophet
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This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
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Buying a Mystery Book Box, or: Some Weird Old Books
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together.
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March Reading Wrap-Up, or: A Dog Appears
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Isn’t it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom? Books Featured in this post: – Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World – Naomi Klein– This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein– A Lot of People are Saying – Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum– Consider the Lobster…
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Moby Dick Explained: Chapter 18 – His Mark
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Think of Death and the Judgment then? No! no time to think about Death then.
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Moby Dick Explained: Chapter 17 – The Ramadan
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Paint me a sign, with—“no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor.”
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Moby Dick Explained: Chapters 14, 15, 16 – Nantucket, Chowder, The Ship
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For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.
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Moby Dick Explained: Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13 – A Bosom Friend, Nightgown, Biographical, Wheelbarrow
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No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage had redeemed it.
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Moby Dick Explained: Chapter 9 – The Sermon
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
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Moby Dick Explained: Chapters 7, 8 – The Chapel, The Pulpit
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Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.