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Post kawaii authors. Haaman Merberu wa ichiban kawaii desu!

>>17095689

How are Pierre and The Confidence-Man?

What are his best works and what do you think of him in general?

I am in awe of how good this nigga was and how badly he was treated by the readers of his time. Were 19th century Americans retarded? The first time I read him and almost instantly recognized he was good as hell, within a few pages. He is the Homer or Shakespeare of America.

*propositions you*

ITT: Author's with good esoterica

>>14965006
>The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite. Only the most unprejudiced of men like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are not so fastidious. We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly juicy and nourishing. And this reminds me that certain Englishmen, who long ago were accidentally left in Greenland by a whaling vessel—that these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber. Among the Dutch whalemen these scraps are called “fritters”; which, indeed, they greatly resemble, being brown and crisp, and smelling something like old Amsterdam housewives’ dough-nuts or oly-cooks, when fresh. They have such an eatable look that the most self-denying stranger can hardly keep his hands off.

Imagine being so retarded you hate on first person

ITT: Writers with god-tier facial hair

Melville filters me hard. As an ESL, I’ve read countless books in English, from Tristan Shandy to more contemporary authors like DFW. I’ve read Twain, Achebe, Konrad, Orwell, Dickens, Hardy, Austen, Joyce (Dubliners and Portrait, not Ulysses), Stevenson, Shelley, even fucking YEATS, KEATS and god damn it Eliot. But this fucking Melville filters me. I can’t understand one single scene from Moby-Dick, I never know what the hell is going on.