That part in Bartleby the Scrivener where someone asks him what Japanese food he would want to eat, and he says “I would prefer nattō”

#Melville #scriveners

So geht #realismus:
"Ein Melville-Seminar könnte ich heute nicht mehr unterrichten, weil ich nicht davon ausgehen kann, dass Studierende nicht nur «#MobyDick», sondern auch drei weitere Romane von #Melville
lesen, geschweige denn einen ganzen Handapparat mit #Sekundärliteratur.
Ich weiss, dass sie das nicht tun."
https://www.woz.ch/2334/elisabeth-bronfen/was-mich-am-meisten-erstaunt-ist-die-hartnaeckige-faehigkeit-zu-verdraengen?utm_source=pocket-newtab-de-de

Melville On Opting Out Of The Digital Age

( from Obvious State - https://obviousstate.substack.com/p/melville-on-opting-out-of-the-digital )

#internet #ai #seo #web3 #content #books #melville #bartleby #Iwouldprefernotto #notto

Working on sound design for The Love Talker today, and I got a new instrument from Pianobook: "Poseidon's Pull." It's this amazing sample of the ocean, the creaking of ship's ropes, more. I added a little pad and some spoken words which are from Laurie Anderson by way of Shakespeare, The Book of Job, and Herman Melville.

Think of it as a teaser for a non-existent audio drama.

#storytelling #audiodrama #audiofiction #shakespeare #tempest #melville #sounddesign #sampler #decentsampler

"(...) Immer wenn ich merke, daß ich um den Mund herum grimmig werde; immer wenn in meiner Seele nasser, niesliger November herrscht; immer wenn ich merke, daß ich vor Sarglagern stehen bleibe und jedem Leichenzug hinter hertrotte, der mir begegnet; und besonders immer dann,wenn meine schwarze Galle so sehr überhand nimmt, daß nur starke moralische Grundsätze mich davon abhalten können, mit Vorsatz auf die Straße zu treten und den Leuten mit Bedacht die Hüte vom Kopf zu hauen - dann ist es höchste Zeit für mich, so bald ich kann auf See zu kommen. Das ist mein Ersatz für Pistole und Kugel. (...)"

Herman #Melville, (1. August 1819 – 28. September 1891) aus: Moby-Dick oder der Wal, 1851

https://www.trueten.de/archives/11723-Schemen.html #OtD

Some good lines in today’s Whale Weekly.

“It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness.”

“Of erections, how few are domed like St. Peter’s!”

#MobyDick #WhaleWeekly #Melville

I would point out that, in chapter 60, “the Line”, while it is true Melville is tarrying with the old racist theory that Caucasian peoples were the last word in human evolution, and that the Georgians and Circassians the world’s most beautiful, he is taking about rope. There is an satirical aspect to extending racial theories and colorism to tar-coated plant fibers, fond though he clearly is of the whale-line.

#WhaleWeekly #MobyDick #Melville

Today in Labor History June 11, 1381: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was going strong. Tyler led a Peasant revolt in England, from May to June 15, 1381. The uprising began in response to a new poll tax. However, Tyler called for property to be held in common and equality for all. The peasants also wanted the right to choose their employer, rather than to be tied to a specific landlord. The rebellion contributed to the end of serfdom.

Tyler’s Rebellion has been referenced in many works of music and literature. He is the protagonist in Pierce Egan the Younger's novel “Wat Tyler, or the Rebellion of 1381 (1841),” a radical text published as a propaganda piece during the Chartist movement, as an argument for a republican government. Charles Dickens invokes Wat Tyler’s name in “Bleak House” (1853). Tyler also appears as a sympathetic hero in “A Dream of John Ball” (1888) by the socialist writer William Morris. And he appears in Melville’s “Redburn” and in Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #WatTyler #rebellion #peasant #revolt #landlord #england #literature #fiction #writer #author #socialism #melville #MarkTwain #Dickens @bookstadon

‘Abandonada a matemática, ficamos à deriva’
#melville

https://impa.br/en_US/noticias/folha-abandonada-a-matematica-ficamos-a-deriva/

Quand la #traduction sert magnifiquement le texte original
/.../ "Ces pauvres marins à la peau boucanée et qui allaient pieds nus, le pantalon roulé haut sur des mollets d'anguille " Hermann #melville Moby Dick ou le cachalot, trad Philippe Jaworski, Quarto @Gallimard
« /.../ these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs /.../ »
#translation #litterature

"Il est des entreprises dans lesquelles un méticuleux désordre est la seule vraie méthode." Hermann #Melville, "Moby Dick ou le cachalot", trad Philippe Jaworski, Quarto @Gallimard, chapitre 82.
#litterature

Started reading R.A. Lafferty thanks to the Alzabo Soup Podcast ( started as a #genewolfe podcast ). The short story Snuffles reminds me of reading #Melville ‘s The Lightning Rod Man where there is so much to the story than what is on the surface. https://www.alzabosoup.com/category-28/ Definitely worth the quick read. PDF link here https://ia600701.us.archive.org/11/items/97StoriesByR.A.LaffertyR.A.Lafferty/97%20Stories%20by%20R.A.%20Lafferty%20-%20R.A.%20Lafferty.pdf

RT @AdoptableBuns@twitter.com https://twitter.com/AdoptableBuns/status/1651305269723549696#m: Tyler is a friendly, adult American from #Melville, NY. http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/60012971

Le 18 mars 1813, David #Melville brevète un appareil pour la fabrication de gaz de houille. #histoire #cejourla #invention

This…

“…whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time tozz get to sea as soon as I can.”

- but in an exuberant way and recording, not sailing.☔️
#Dick #MobyDick #Melville #HermanMelville #LARain

NOW I understand what Melville did with Bulkington in chapter 23! It took a very long time to figure out because he was very cryptic. #mobydick #fun #melville

Moby Dick Ends. Moving on to Proust's second book next.

#mobydick #Literature #literary #Melville #HermanMelville #literarycriticism #reading #books #fate #longing #self #devil #faith #God #freewill #freedom #soul

#Earthquake M3.4 strikes 77 km SW of #Melville (#Australia) 21 min ago. More info: https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1228500

Later grams from 44 Stanley in #Melville #Johannesburg #Joburg #SouthAfrica #Africa #cities #neighbourhoods #travel

I’ve given up on removing the 9 yr old whipped cream stain. It’ll take some heavy weights to flatten the roll marks in this area rug— #Yeats #Melville and #Shakespeare are pretty heavy, plus a little #Pynchon