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 one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Musing: I've always seen this chapter as talking about a whale's fossil as a mighty book. Melville writes, "But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered." This chapter, far from being about a whale's fossil, is about the large and complex texts left behind. The structures writers mu
