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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along @chapteraday.bsky.social · 23h

#AmericanReadalong

Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 18h

PORTER
How got they in, and be hang'd?

MAN
Alas I know not, how gets the tide in?

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
V,3,16-17

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 18h

„I went away from that lunch, he said, feeling that my own life had been a failure. You seemed so happy with your family, so complete, it was an image of how things ought to be.“

#RachelCuskTogether
Outline p92

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 20h

Happy Tuesday! xo
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"Memory is the art of forgetting.’

László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On, 2013
Not on the Hereclitian Path
Nobel Prize In Literature 2025

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 21h

Moby-Dick
Chapter 58. Brit.
The Arion Press edition

#AmericanReadalong

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 21h

„STEERING north eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden wheat.“
Herman Melville

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Takeshi Sudo @artssoy.bsky.social · 1d

“and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.”

—— Moby Dick, CHAPTER 13

#MelvilleMonday 🐳

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 1d

#MelvilleMonday

"It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Ch. 12)

The Mystical Boat by Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

For context: "Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
- Herman Melville. Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Ch. 12).

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 2d

Aphoristic lines like this are typically signposts offering clear insight into the worldview of the author or protagonist. We’re conditioned to treat them as miniature truths, endorsed by the author. But Cusk deliberately unsettles that expectation. The protagonist isn't proclaiming; just listening.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

This reading is breathtaking, in the truest sense of the word.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1d

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

Everyone needs a sperm whale mailbox ! 🐳🐳

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1d

#AmericanReadalong

Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i. e. what is called savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois. I myself am a savage . . .
#MobyDick C57
#MelvilleMonday

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Ustinoff auf Eis @ustinoff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-colored membrane, like the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Die Schwarzweiß-Postkarte zeigt das "Das große Heidelberger Fass".
Ein riesengroßes Fass, vor dem kleine Menschen herum laufen.

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Ustinoffs Hausgeist 🎃 @ustinoff.bsky.social · 1d

Moby Dick. LXXVII.

Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends!

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Many whales around, one is harpooned, red water, rowing boats, a sailing boat

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

A Brontëesque heroine in the midst of contemporary Victorian male domination—an exciting and highly recommended reading!

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 1d

“Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers. Some of them are done with much accuracy.”

#MelvilleMonday

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

I'm currently reading the epistolary novel on the other side. 📚😍

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

„The intangible became solid, the visionary was embodied, the private became public: when peace becomes war, when love turns to hatred, something is born into the world, a force of pure mortality.“

#RachelCuskTogether
Outline (82)

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 2d

#RachelCuskTogether

Day 11

"I was surprised to find myself not especially sure-footed in this exercise."

When we're done with these books, will we all see the literal and metaphorical coexist everywhere we go?

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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along @chapteraday.bsky.social · 1d

#AmericanReadalong

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

#AmericanReadalong

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 57.

„And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.“

Walfisch (Stellarium)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

Baleinier Français en Pêche
Kreidelithographie von Thierry Frères, Paris, nach Jean-Baptiste-Henri Durand-Brager
1844 oder 1845. Walfangsammlung Barthelmess

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

Fall
San Francisco, CA

A few redwood leaves lying where they fell on an old wooden table.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

Teachers—not all, but some—stayed awake all night hating them, because of their weird grown-up youth, which was like gardenias blooming in January, and their beauty, which was both stunning and sad as racehorses, and their love everyone except them knew wouldn’t last.
#SundaySentence

Marisha Pessl

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

Cranmer

My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress
Both of my life and office, I have laboured,
And with no little study, that my teaching
And the strong course of my authority
Might go one way, and safely; and the end
Was ever to do well:
#HenryVIII_2025
Act V s3 (32-37)

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