The first time sea life got upset about a yacht. Orcas approve.
As for the Steinbeck family, they moved from Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1851 to establish a fruit farm in co-operation with local Jews.
The writer #HermanMelville (he of the white whale) was a visitor to the Steinbeck’s farming cooperative as well.
There's a #BartlebyTheScrivener hardback here that looks pretty sweet!
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I'm going to keep posting Melville quotes on here until I get famous. Perfect plan. Can't miss. #HermanMelville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky
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…whether Leviathan can long endure…whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters…we account the whale immortal…In Noah's flood he despised Noah's Ark…if ever the world is to be again flooded…the eternal whale will still survive….
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Rabbit, rabbit!
Happy April!
“It is as sweet as early grass butter in April.”
― Herman Melville
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Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man, His Masquerade - Norton Critical Edition
Happy 'birthday' to my favourite book #HermanMelville \o/ 169 yo, so young
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“Pip…I won't pick you up if you jump…We can't afford to lose whales…a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.…”
Hereby…Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal….
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Not drowned…Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths,where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes…Pip saw…God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom,and spoke it;and therefore his shipmates called him mad.
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#FunFactFriday: Herman Melville used the em dash to mimic the "long, heavy roll" of the ocean in Moby-Dick.
To Melville, the dash wasn't just grammar—it was a wave. It broke his sentences mid-thought to simulate the swell of the tide and the chaos of obsession.
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Hundreds of colorful glass marbles in a cardboard box.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavoured to prevail upon Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain. There he sat; and all he could do—for all my polite arts and blandishments—he would not move a peg, not say a single...
#ClassicLiterature #HermanMelville #photography
Me acabo de enterar gracias a un amigo que Moby (que se llama Richard Melville Hall) es tataratataranieto de Herman Melville y que se puso su nombre artístico por la novela "Moby Dick" de su tataratatarabuelo. 🤔 #Moby #HermanMelville #MobyDick
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…half vertical, scimitar-shaped slats...three hundred on a side...from the upper part of the head...The edges...fringed with hairy fibres, through which the... Whale strains the water...in Queen Anne's time...ancient dames moved...in the jaws of the whale…
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Friedrich #Merz unser #Bartleby: "Ich hätte abgeraten", das deutsche "I would prefer not to“... 😅
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the skin of the whale…you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance…becomes rather hard…I have several…use for marks in my whale-books. It is transparent…and being laid upon the printed page…it exerted a magnifying influence…
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Finished Moby-Dick, and hoooooooooly shit, I can't believe I waited until this forty-first year of mine to read it. It shook me to my foundation.
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"But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?"
—Herman Melville, MOBY-DICK
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Round the world…whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started…Were this world an endless plain…in pursuit…they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
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…after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal…
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#ComingUpOnTCM
BILLY BUDD (1962) Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas
Dir.: Peter Ustinov 12:15 PM PT
A kind-hearted sailor finds himself between loyalty to his crew mates or his cruel master-at-arms.
1h 52m | Drama | TV-G
#TCM #TCMParty #HermanMelville
Top-down view of succulents in a white pot.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"And what dost thou want of Captain Ahab? It's all right enough; thou art shipped."
"Yes, but I should like to see him."
"But I don't think thou wilt be able to at present. I don't know exactly what's the matter with him; but he keeps...
🌱 #succulents #hermanmelville
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The cabin; by the stern windows;
Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out.
I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
The Candles
"All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames"
#hermanmelville #mobydick #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #artonbluesky
Treated myself to an early Christmas present ahead of next month's episode on the film, Bartleby (1970) #bartleby #hermanmelville #rogerwebb #1970sfilm #jonnytrunk
A single red glove resting on a pile of snow on a planter box.
Today's #MobyDick quote:
"Thou knowest best," was the sepulchral reply, "the seven hundred and seventy-seventh wouldn't be too much, would it?—'where moth and rust do corrupt, but *lay*—'"
*Lay*, indeed, thought I, and such a lay! the seven hundred and...
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