The Daily Dick: Musings on the Relevance of Moby-Dick Today
From The Monkey-Rope "I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another’s mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death." Musing: Oh man! - is Melville fit for today's times, or what? So here we are - humanity - reliant on one another not to breathe in each other's faces; not to harm each other simply by being alive. In the
