He lived for forty more years like a ghost—a quiet, solitary man, walking in limbo, perhaps haunted by dreams more malefic than Captain Ahab’s obsession with the white whale. Nothing else he wrote found a public, and he was not wanted as a lecturer. In 1866 the man who had wrestled...
The actor wore up to 300 pounds of prosthetics throughout the movie, and The Whale proved divisive for its depiction of obesity. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Fraser responded to those criticisms prior to winning: “I respect those who don’t see eye to eye with the aims of this...
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" -- Merely this, and nothing more. View in context It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: "I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds." They replied, "You...
Captain Ahab inMoby Dickby Herman Melville: Ahab's monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale, despite the destruction it causes, designates him as an antihero. Tom Ripley inThe Talented Mr. Ripleyby Patricia Highsmith: As a sociopathic charmer willing to kill to maintain his lies, Ripley is a ...
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Now a bristling thing, large as a whale, appears on the icebore camera we dropped into the ocean below. A dandelion made of soft arms. Bright red and yellow markings indicate it evolved in the shallows, where some light pierces the ice. ...
Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan --do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you wi...
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Leviathan was released on the Relapse label in August 2004, bearing cover art of whale and Pequod, and song titles like "I Am Ahab,""Blood and Thunder," and "Hearts Alive" (the latter two are drawn from Stubb's whispered exhortations to his crew). The album debuted at number 139 on...
“I have followed the polar bird and the swimming whale to the eastern coast of Greenland. Gaunt ice-covered rocks and dark clouds hung over a valley, where dwarf willows and barberry bushes stood clothed in green. The blooming lychnis exhaled sweet odours. My light was faint, my face pale...