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That one half-hour's peep at the mere remnants of the glories of the Banquets of Kings; the unsatisfying mouthfuls of disembowelled pasties, plundered pheasants, and half-sacked jellies, served to remind them of the intrinsic contempt of the alms.
- Melville, Rich Man's Crumbs
“No fence was seen, no inclosure. Near by—ferns, ferns, ferns; further—woods, woods, woods; beyond—mountains, mountains, mountains; then—sky, sky, sky. Turned out in aerial commons, pasture for the mountain moon.” 🌙 🌊✨The Piazza Tales #melvillemonday #booksky #seasky
![Herman Melville wrote and published the two-part short story "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" in 1854. It first appeared in the June 1854 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine (shown here). The story, which criticizes American and British attitudes toward poverty and charity, was later included in the 1922 collection The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches. [Source: University of Michigan Library, Internet Archive.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c7ex5lsw6ieo65txcbw7of2r/bafkreibeagad3nh3bsrrwekkajbapgfgx67s4eo5oznberwxzjouqlmppa)
Herman Melville wrote and published the two-part short story "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" in 1854. It first appeared in the June 1854 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine (shown here). The story, which criticizes American and British attitudes toward poverty and charity, was later included in the 1922 collection The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches. [Source: University of Michigan Library, Internet Archive.]
"Portrait of Herman Melville, by Joseph Oriel Eaton (1829-1875). Oil on canvas. Commissioned and presented to the family by Melville's brother-in-law, John Hoadley (May 1870). The portrait now hangs in the Edison and Newman Room in the Houghton Library at Harvard University." • Source: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Modern Books and Manuscripts.
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"Now, Heaven in its kind mercy save me from the noble charities of London," sighed I, as that night I lay bruised and battered on my bed; "and Heaven save me equally from the 'Poor Man's Pudding' and the 'Rich Man's Crumbs.' "
- Melville, c. 1854
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“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essen tially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges” (Billy Budd, 28)
Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!
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“. . . the spirits I drank was just the thing I needed; but I suppose, if I could have had a cup of nice hot coffee, it would have done quite as well, and perhaps much better.”
~ Redburn, His First Voyage
Aghast. Googly eyes on a river rock found.
“…now I have eyed him carefully, I’m quite certain that he’s no more fit to command a whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. In fact, tell him from me he’s a baboon.”
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“…Aye, men, hell rise once more, —but only to spout his last! D'ye feel brave men, brave?"
"As fearless fire," cried Stubb.
"And as mechanical," muttered Ahab.
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Finished #MobyDick
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“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man.
This whole act's immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders….”
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Sandsturm an der Südküste Arabiens von Vollbehr, Ernst (Production) (Autor) - Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde, Germany - CC BY-NC-SA.
It wanted full an hour to sunset; but the sun was well nigh obscured. It seemed toiling among bleak Scythian steeps in the hazy background. Above the storm-cloud flitted ominous patches of scud, rapidly advancing and receding: Attila's skirmishers, thrown […]
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Schiffe vor der Küste bei ruhiger See
In that hot calm, we lay fixed and frozen in like Parry at the Pole. The sun played upon the glassy sea like the sun upon the glaciers.
Mardi/Volume I/Chapter XXXVI
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
• 🎨: Nicholas Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947). The Treasure (c. 1919). Oil and tempera on canvas. Source: The Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York. Public Domain. • Quote from The Piazza. Herman Melville wrote The Piazza Tales (published 1856) at his home, "Arrowhead," a farmhouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The surrounding Berkshire hills were a source of inspiration to him. • Source: HERMAN MELVILLE: PIERRE, ISRAEL POTTER, THE PIAZZA TALES, THE CONFIDENCE-MAN, BILLY BUDD, UNCOLLECTED PROSE. Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984, New York, N.Y. Tenth Printing, The Library of America.
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How to get to fairy-land, by what road, I did not know; nor could any one inform me; not even one Edmund Spenser, who had been there...further than that to reach fairy-land, it must be voyaged to, and with faith.
- Melville, The Piazza Tales
“But say, are not the sweets of June made sweet by the April tears?”
(Pierre; or The Ambiguities)
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“Melville’s younger brother, Allan, who purchased Arrowhead from his brother, had inscribed on the chimney text from the story which remains for visitors to see along with an original copy of the story.”
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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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Menschen sitzen am Mast eines Bootes
In men-of-war, the space on the uppermost deck, round about the main-mast, is the Police-office, Court-house, and yard of execution, where all charges are lodged, causes tried, and punishment administered
White-Jacket/Chapter XXXII.
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Two ice breakers in the frozen sea
"Ah, rites august;--this ancient sect,
Stately upholstered and bedecked,
Is but a catafalque, concede
Prolongs in sacerdotal way
The Lower Empire's bastard sway;
It does not grow, it does but bide
An orthodoxy petrified.
Or, if it grow, it grows but with […]
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„Ah, Love, when lite closes,
Dying the death of the just,
May we vie with Hearth-Roses,
Smelling sweet in our dust.“
Herman Melville
An atmospheric oil painting by J.M.W. Turner depicting the silhouetted ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle perched atop a dark, steep cliff. The scene is bathed in a hazy, monochromatic golden-sepia light, suggesting early morning mist or a dusty sunset. In the foreground, dark, jagged rocks emerge from a churning sea with white foam from breaking waves. The castle's twin towers stand as skeletal remains against a pale, luminous sky, evoking a sense of lonely grandeur and the power of nature over man-made structures.
"And who is Tribonnora," said Babbalanja, "that he thus bravely diverts himself, running down innocent paddlers?"
"A harum-scarum young chief," replied Media, "heir to three islands; he likes nothing better than the sport you now see see him at."
"He must be […]
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Eiffel tower at night. Lots of light. Bw Photo.
But then again, we were taken for phantoms, not flesh and blood.
Mardi/Volume I/Chapter XXVIII
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
Herman Melville wrote and published the two-part short story "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" in 1854. It first appeared in the June 1854 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. The story, which criticizes American and British attitudes toward poverty and charity, was later included in the 1922 collection The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches.
#MelvilleMonday
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
– Melville (Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs)
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“for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still”
— Moby-Dick, 111
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“But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world. Inward they turned upon the soul…”
(Moby-Dick, Ch. 29)
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Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!
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“Oh, Ocean, when thou choosest to smile, more beautiful thou art than flowery mead or plain!”
~ Mardi C16
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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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Adapted for young readers, illustrated by H. B Vestal—Herman Melville's Moby Dick by Felix Sutton. Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap.
“I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.”
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Give me the nerve That never will swerve Running out on life's ledges of danger; Mine, mine be the nerve That in peril will serve, ince life is to safety a stranger. When roaring below The cataracts go, And tempests are over me scudding; Give, give me the calm That is better than balm, And the courage that keepeth new-budding.
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„When roaring below
The cataracts go,
And tempests are over me scudding;
Give, give me the calm
That is better than balm,
And the courage that keepeth new-budding.“
Herman Melville
“For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.”
— Moby-Dick, 80
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• Herman Melville wrote The Piazza Tales (published 1856) at his home, "Arrowhead," a farmhouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, was a direct source of inspiration and was visible from his study, famously resembling a "white whale" or "landslide of sleeping meadow". • Source: HERMAN MELVILLE: PIERRE, ISRAEL POTTER, THE PIAZZA TALES, THE CONFIDENCE-MAN, BILLY BUDD, UNCOLLECTED PROSE. Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984, New York, N.Y. Tenth Printing, The Library of America.
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"Fairies there, thought I; some haunted ring where fairies dance."
- Melville, The Piazza
Theodor Severin Kittelsen. Fra Lofoten. 1891.
