Finished Moby-Dick this weekend – wow, what a book! The literary genre-hopping, the cosmological speculations, the epic scale, the humor, the unforgettable characters, the ornate, rhythmic splendor of the language – is there any other novel like it? (I’m not even sure it is a novel!) I think it may have supplanted The Brothers Karamazov as first in my heart.
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
2 responses to “Hearts alive”
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Only the greatest American novel, says a man I know who thinks it’s more easily decided than the equally burning question, who is America’s tallest basketball player?
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Personally, I think there are probably lots of novels, and lots of basketball players, among which the thing is just too close to call.
A Thinking Reed 
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