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I Am Herman Melville

• scandox 2y ago
  > “Your subconscious is smarter than you are,” he once told me, “so get out of its way.”
• deleted 2y ago
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• bigboats2024 2y ago
  shout out to the SS United States making an unexpected appearance here
  • gradschoolfail 2y ago
    https://www.phillyvoice.com/ss-united-states-eviction-south-philly-sale-okaloosa-county-court-hearing-friday/ https://www.phillyvoice.com/ss-united-states-eviction-south-... https://archive.ph/E5pce https://archive.ph/E5pce
• jhbadger 2y ago
  The movie is streaming for free on Tubi (hot tip: ad blockers still work on Tubi). It's pretty good even if I hate the simplification of the dialogue -- in the beginning Ishmael talks of visiting "the oceans" rather than the more poetic "watery parts of the world".
  • keiferski 2y ago
    That’s terrible. The real reason to read the book is for the language, as the narrative itself is great but not why it’s such an excellent novel. I have a few lines memorized via Anki because the writing is so impressive.
    • jhbadger 2y ago
      Yeah, and Bradbury himself was known to be a rather poetic writer himself so it is odd that his screenplay does that.
    • bookofjoe 2y ago
      It takes about 25 hours to read 'Moby Dick' aloud. The movie is 1h 56m long. Something had to go.