Besides, this Bland, the master-at-arms, was no vulgar, dirty knave. In him—to modify Burke’s phrase—vice seemed, but only seemed, to lose half its seeming evil by losing all its apparent grossness. (Melville, White Jacket) No doubt…
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Human Science…But a Passing Fable
In some particulars, perhaps, the most imposing physiognomical view to be had of the Sperm Whale, is that of the full front of his head. This aspect is sublime. In thought a fine human brow…
Melville On Mind
…it has the savor of analogical probability. Chapter 73: STUBB AND FLASK KILL A RIGHT WHALE; AND THEN HAVE OVER HIM The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side, where…
Breaching the Sound
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What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive!
Some poems from Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. The Portent. (1859.) Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah! The cut is on the…
Empty Wonder Born On A Beach
I hope you’ll indulge me. Below are three “versions” of Chapter 14 of Moby Dick. The first is “after” Ronald Johnson’s, Paradise Lost (radi os), and so I try to excise the text to “leave”…
What kind of guy inhabits this poem?
Speaking for myself, the questions which interest me most when reading a poem are two. The first is technical: “Here is a verbal contraption. How does it work?” The second is, in the broadest sense,…
Not My Favorite Book
Updated and revised (4/18, 11:29 a.m.) Another version of “My Favorite Book.” Not My Favorite Book A favorite book? I don’t have one. To be sure, you might ask tomorrow and get a different response. …
Adrienne Rich, May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012
Perhaps Rich is wrong in the poem below when she asserts “Not of course here.” THE SCHOOL AMONG THE RUINS Beirut the possibility of a prolonged erection (called priapism)selectively specific substances or to determine…
Common Core State Standards: A Stuccoed Stratum of Obscurity
What follows are two pieces by Eric Sargent, an educator in the St. Louis area, and good friend to the Errant. Eric has written the below in response to the state of education but also…