What insight can I possibly give on Moby Dick? Moby Dick is a huge book: always sweeping between the most general and philosophic all the way down ...
As with the Iliad, which I love for the same reasons (eye-burning splendour of language, relish of brutality, tenderness beyond tenderness), the mo...
I chuckled out loud almost as much as I stopped to reread a paragraph aloud to myself in awe of the language. Obviously many consider this to be th...
