English 300: Junior Seminar • Fall 2006
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. Melville William Howarth • howarth at princeton dot edu |
Moby-Dick Unbound |
| 1851 This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact. The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition. — London Athenaeum 1927 I think that the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, "I wish I had written that," is Moby-Dick....There's magic in the very word. A White Whale. — William Faulkner 1998 I don't want to swim forever / I don't want to fight the tide / I don't want to swim the ocean / When it's cold I want to die. — Moby (great-great-grandson of Herman Melville) |
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