Whaling was America's first oil rush. Moby Dick is its ethnography of that, and many many other thing.
My review of the quintessential American novel.
Reading Moby Dick
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Flannery O’Connor didn’t write “You shall know the truth, and it will make you cool—a participant in the Christian Vibe Shift.”
She wrote: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
@univrsw3th4rt i find a certain kind of beauty in an italian mass with no consensus on when to kneel and no lines or order for communion
the logic i heard for standing/kneeling is private devotion:kneel, group devotion:stand. so the old tradition is to stand at attention together
the 'prophetic tense' thing is exactly the same as the 'focus on what you want to see more of' thing.
implied 'dont wallow in yesterday's mistakes' in both