It might have been but a deception of the vapours, but, the longer the stranger was watched, the more singular appeared her manoeuvres. “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville In a recent scholarly biography of Louis…
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Audio Recording of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman
An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman. (18:48) *** I wander all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and…
Audio Recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself”
Audio recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself” by Doug Storm (1:49:42) *** Do I contradict myself? Very well then . . . . I contradict myself; I am large . . . . I…
Master-ful-less-ly Supercilious
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the…
To the Tally of Our Souls
It is both easy and difficult to give thanks, to be thankful. It seems an ingratitude to be ambivalent or even hostile to the notion of this day as a kind of celebration. But we…