“For me, Moby-Dick is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual—the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.”
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Nathaniel Philbrick, The Road to Melville
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/151234770642