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Tag: herman melville

  • It Seems a Pity

    March 29, 2026

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    Nothings

    Stanley Elkin, Boswell Read more

  • Folies Meurtrières

    November 7, 2025

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    Music

    My new album Folies Meurtrières is out today. Read more

  • September 28

    September 28, 2025

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    Nothings

    Poet, critic and “father of imagism” T. E. Hulme died 108 years ago today. Read more

  • A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi

    April 1, 2025

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    Nothings

    At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. Read more

  • Ravaged

    February 22, 2025

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    Nothings

    A short corollary to December’s ramble on Apollo: Melville’s “The Ravaged Villa.” Read more

  • Contingent

    December 16, 2024

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    Nothings

    That for six thousand years — and no one knows how many millions of ages before — the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should… Read more

Thought:

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”

Jorge Luis Borges

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