Denise Tolan
The Daily Dick: Musing about Artists
From Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary...
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Denise Tolan
- Apr 8, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Chase- Third Day "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides;...
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Denise Tolan
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
The Chase - Third Day "Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these...
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Denise Tolan
- Apr 4, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Chase - First Day "What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck? Man, man! did I not know thee brave as fearless fire...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 30, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Symphony "Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 28, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Log and the Line "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor’s!” Musing: Here is...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 27, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Quadrant "'Well, well; I [Stubb] heard Ahab mutter, ‘Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 25, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: Queequeg in His Coffin "And this tattooing [Queequeg's] had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 22, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: Ahab and Starbuck in The Cabin "'He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!' murmured Ahab, as Starbuck...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 20, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin "Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men’s cabin furniture),...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 18, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: Ahab's Leg "The most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so,...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 17, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
The Fossil Whale "One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then,...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
The Doubloon: "And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
The Try-Works: "Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 9, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From The Castaway: “The sea had jeeringly kept his [Pip’s] finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely,...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 6, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Castaway “Damn him, cut!” roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was saved. [ . . . ] But we are all in the hands of...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish “What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but Loose-Fish? What all men’s minds and...
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Denise Tolan
- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
The Fountain: “And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog...
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Denise Tolan
- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Nut "For I believe that much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than...
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Denise Tolan
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
The Daily Dick: Musing in a Time of Angst
From: The Blanket “Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.” How can we not feel...
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