Amen. The prose is some of the best English one will ever encounter. There are lines in there that stop you in your tracks for their beauty, depth, surprise, et

Amen. The prose is some of the best English one will ever encounter. There are lines in there that stop you in your tracks for their beauty, depth, surprise, etc. I will say that there were several paragraphs/run-on-sentences where I recall saying to myself “Ok Melville, you’ve gone a little too far this time”…only to find, come the final line, that against all odds he would tie the whole thing together.