#the dedication of moby dick

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#herman melville #nathaniel hawthorne #herman melville and nathaniel hawthorne #everything about hawthorne and his mosses #the dedication of moby dick #the letter which sounds almost like wedding vows #isabel in pierre or the ambiguities #as representative of forbidden desire #and quite simply the transformative effect #hawthorne had on melvilles writing #the possibilities he opened up #then from hawthornes perspective #theres that journal entry #where having already spent the day #with melville #he says hed sooner ride the six miles to pittsfield #than go to sleep #and how much coverdale is in love with hollingsworth #in the blithedale romance #their feelings for each other are just so much #with my worn down crew and my man queequeg 
slowly we unfold as lotus flowers@pythionice
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:04:28
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