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To T.P. Roche: Or, To the Lighthouse
This is a story I haven’t told before, but my reasons for not telling have changed a few times over the years. At first, I didn’t think it was significant. Then, a few years later when I realized it...
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A Smart Dude Reads Moby-Dick: Episode 1
Editor’s note: When Avidly learned that smart dude (and Avidly contributor) Jake Bartolone was reading Moby-Dick for the first time, we jumped at the chance to get an annotated account of the “first...
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A Smart Dude Reads Moby-Dick: Episode 2
Editor’s note: as promised, Smart Dude Jake Bartolone returns with an update on his Moby-Dickery. Check out the first installment here, and comment away if you have thoughts on Jake’s questions (or...
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A Smart Dude Reads Moby-Dick: Episode 3. ENTER CYBORG WE MEAN AHAB
On (almost) the occasion of the Big M-D’s birthday, we’re pleased to bring you our third installment of a Smart Dude. (Click for episodes one and two.) We promise that we are inviting the Smart Dude...
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Smart Dude Reads Moby-Dick, Episode 4: Chapterology
“Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste, than Herman Melville, even in a great book like Moby-Dick. He preaches and holds forth because he’s not sure of himself. And he...
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A Smart Dude Reads Moby-Dick, Episode 5: Chapterology, Cont’d.
In my last installment, I nominated three actors as avatars for chapters I had read to date, but noted that I did not expect my taxonomy to remain comprehensive. I admit that I expected it to take a...
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