Melville wrote Moby Dick when he was 31. How is that even humanly possible? He was only a few years older than me now and I struggle to write grammatically correct sentences. Wtf?
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How many whaling expeditions have you been on?
How many hours have you spend writing?
Read John Dewey.
Good rec for understanding one of the thinkers that destroyed Western culture and Western education in particular
he was smart
you are stupid
simple as
>Allan Melvill described him as "very backwards in speech & somewhat slow in comprehension"
He forgot about Bulkington...amateur.
Moby dick isn't even that good. most "great" artwork is great only because it's considered to be.
clown ah bih
Uhhh, no moby dick is amazing
You just need to find an edition with really good annotations.
KEK
ill kill you
Not wrong. None of the other folkx can tell you what makes it good
(you)
don't spend it all in one place
Don't spit in Oliver's face
obvious bait
>he'd rather gaslight himself into believing its bait than accept that Melville (PBUH) might not be as good as he wants to believe
Sad!
Yikes
What ever could be the explanation
Has anybody read a biography of Melville?
Can anybody recommend a good one?
Hershel Parker's two-volume biography of Melville is the only one I know.
Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. v. 1. 1819-1851. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. v. 2. 1851-1891. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Cheers
As to another untold story, you might want to check Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick by Michael Sheldon. HarperCollins. 2016. 266pps.
And investigate Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival by Clare L. Spark. Kent State University Press. 2001. 730 pps.! Hershel Parker gave it a rave for what it’s worth. Here’s the full quote from him on the back of Hunting Captain Ahab: “Hunting Captain Ahab is a delicious concoction, an irrestible mélange of Hannah Arendt, Kermit Vanderbilt, Kitty Kelley, Ronald Radosh-Joyce Milton, and A. S. Byatt. Usual and unusual suspects are tracked down, strip-searched, grilled, and served up. FBI files, private filing cabinets, and great library archives are ransacked for our astonished delight. Who would have thought that so many startling family comments on Melville remained unseen? Who would have thought those secretive, conspiratorial academics would have preserved so many incriminating papers? Anyone who writes on Melville must buy this plump plum pudding of a book, this vast long-considered trifle, this huge fruit-cake of certifiably weird fellow-travelling Melvilleans. Lord, I wish I had known some of them in the flesh.”
Melville was a genius who spent his youth on whalers and man-of-wars freezing his hands off and butchering sea animals. If you want to write good boat books, do the same thing
He also wrote five other novels first, he had plenty of practice writing
that is like 500,000 words. Let's say it took him 5 (rewrites) drafts on average for each novel before moby dick, he would have written over 2.5 million words. Let's say it took him 1 hour to write 500 words, that's 5000 hours of writing.
read a biography, dipshit
He had to suffer through 30+ years of no posting, no porn and no video games to get to that point, I think we all know who the real winner is.
>no posting, no porn and no video games
Heaven
Thomas Mann published Buddenbrooks with 25, a novel he later essentially received the Nobel prize for. Highly mature and measured novel about a family's downfall, the kind of novel where the narrator gets into the minds of very different characters with their individual thoughts and worldviews and life experiences.
Saw a lecture from a prestigious ivy league program yesterday where the prof said writers like Mann and Rilke are veritable dwarfs compared to Kafka. Thoughts? Also checked.
better schooling
read more books at a younger age
much more time spent writing
simple as
why do you think some kids become chess prodigies and become competent at instruments early on in their life? it's because they started early and had good tutors.
Also, Faulkner wrote TSTAF at 32
Writing was literally his job at that time. You would be a good writer too if you spent 8 hours a day everyday writing.
he was gay and loved reading balzac
mark of a pleb
He lived an interesting life, which furnished him with a subject, namely whaling.
Millennials lead pointless and insulated lives, and so have nothing to write about.
>Melville wrote Moby Dick when he was 31. How is that even humanly possible? He was only a few years older than me now and I struggle to write grammatically correct sentences. Wtf?
>And yet he died unknown and unappreciated, in poverty and destitution. There’s a lesson in there
Melville and Hawthorne were part of the last generation of American children to receive education via the trivium btw.
Why is Moby Dick so praised here?
Post breasts.
The whole A Whale is a Fish bit is basically a proto shitpost
we all would have been sailors in another life
It's praised worldwide. This place is part of worldwide.
Because once in a while IQfy actually has good taste.