tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post4052535015427453844..comments2023-10-12T07:13:01.637-04:00Comments on The American Literary Blog: Moby-Dick: I have written a wicked bookUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-28494911298310899722011-11-20T21:47:52.348-05:002011-11-20T21:47:52.348-05:00Also, do you mind if I add you to my blog list for...Also, do you mind if I add you to my blog list for 19th century resources?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-17585541116163493592011-11-20T21:47:16.109-05:002011-11-20T21:47:16.109-05:00Oooh. I am so glad to find this! Love Melville and...Oooh. I am so glad to find this! Love Melville and this blog! I will try to post something in the next month about Moby Dick. One of the greatest books of all time- I still can't believe he wrote it so fast, even though I have heard that much of it was probably "borrowed" from a few different sources. The writing just makes you think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-14022235833229971792011-11-14T15:38:00.142-05:002011-11-14T15:38:00.142-05:00Sorry, mea culpa, I made a typo error here - '...Sorry, mea culpa, I made a typo error here - 'Nescio quid sit', cited by Melville in his extracts prefacing 'Moby Dick' to define the spermaceti whale means -<br /><br />'I do not know what it is'.Kevin Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15482886706239506749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-84082926985758961722011-11-14T12:24:26.048-05:002011-11-14T12:24:26.048-05:00To be precise according to C.A. Patrides Melville&...To be precise according to C.A. Patrides Melville's description of Browne occurs in a letter to Evert A. Duyckinck dated 18th March 1848. <br /><br />C.A. Patrides also notes in his edition of Browne's Major Works (Penguin'77) that Melville quotes Browne's statement, 'Nescio quid sit' (I do not know what is in) in his extracts prefixed to Moby Dick.Kevin Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15482886706239506749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499582243291531753.post-57602968696500373872011-11-14T09:19:26.059-05:002011-11-14T09:19:26.059-05:00Melville greatly admired the writings of the 17th ...Melville greatly admired the writings of the 17th century physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne enough to describe him as a 'cracked archangel'. Browne's description of a beached spermaceti whale on the Norfolk coast in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica, in particular his observation of the smallness of its eye in contrast to its colossal size influence Melville in his description of Moby Dick.Kevin Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15482886706239506749noreply@blogger.com