David Reader 📚🐳
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Native Californian. Constant reader, occasional writer, former teacher. Quotes are mostly from what I’m reading. #MelvilleMonday
Near San Diego CA
Joined October 2013
#Rabelais2025 The Fourth Book of Pantagruel, C65 'I am no longer bored,' said Panurge. 'Thanks to God and to you, I'm gay as a popinjay; as merry as a merlin, as bright as a butterfly. It is indeed written by that fine Euripides of yours, and it is recited by Silenus, that
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"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, & it leads us a wild-goose chase, & is never attained. Follow some other object, & very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it." Nathaniel Hawthorne
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John Updike, from ‘The Morning’ #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ‘He lived alone, in a room only she had ever made habitable. Each morning he awoke to the same walls and was always slightly surprised at the sameness of the cracks and nail holes and replastered patches, as if this pattern were
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“For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.” —— Moby-Dick, CHAPTER 45 #MelvilleMonday
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. Among sea-commanders, the old greybeards will oftenest leave their berths to visit the night-cloaked deck. So it was with Ahab . . . #MobyDick
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#MelvilleMonday (there's video)
'At times, when closely pursued, [the spermaceti] will disgorge what are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length.' Herman Melville, 'Moby-Dick'
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#MelvilleMonday ✨ "In our own hearts, we mould the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods. […] Ourselves are Fate." - White-Jacket 1/
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#MobyDick C29 #MelvilleMonday 🐳 #AmericanReadalong The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled
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Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic. #MelvilleMonday C29 “Enter Ahab; To Him, Stubb” #AmericanReadalong
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“Ginger? ginger?… ☕️🔥 the sort of fuel you use to kindle a fire in this shivering cannibal? Ginger! what the devil is ginger? sea-coal? firewood? lucifer matches? tinder? gunpowder? what the devil is ginger that you offer this cup to our poor Queequeg here?” #MelvilleMonday 🐳
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#AmericanReadalong Herman Melville Moby-Dick Chapter 29 „… it's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep.“ 1+
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#Rabelais2025 Le Quart Livre (64) „Belzébuth et Astaroth les auraient réconciliés avec Proserpine — tant nous pâtimes à leur vue des tempêtes et des diableries.“ Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳
#Rabelais2025 4th Bk C18 The northwester rose, with, in its train, a terrific hurricane. Black clouds gathered ominously; the gale drove furious gusts whistling through our shrouds . . . Illus. Lynd Ward
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#MelvilleMonday 🐳 The opening pages [of Redburn] are a profoundly moving poem to his dead father, to the memory of evenings in New York, talk around the fireside of the cities and sights of Europe, the treasures Allan brought home from Paris. ELIZABETH HARDWICK, Herman Melville
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"We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor everything we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below" #MelvilleMonday 🐳
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Nennt mich #Ismael, las sie, und an Land reize ihn nichts Besonderes, er wolle ein wenig herumsegeln und sich den wässerigen Teil der Welt besehen. Ob das gutgehen wird, dachte sie. #MelvilleMonday
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happy #MelvilleMonday with The Fishmonger by Frans Snijders 17th century Vismarkt te Antwerpen Snijders&Rockoxhuis
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