"The notion that books may so broaden and deepen one's knowledge of life, and so sharpens one's perceptions, that he can live more wisely and judge more intelligently, has dropped out of...to a large extent, out of Victorian, in fact the modern, mind." -- The Victorian Frame of Mind, Walter E. Houghton, 1957, p. 119. (Extracts from recent readings. Photo at sunset atop a Mt Scopus building.)
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Melville at death
"Melville died in obscurity in 1981. He died with the belief that his literary masterpiece, Moby Dick, was a profound failure." -- The Image of the Biblical Job: A History, Volume Three: Job in the Modern World, Stephen Vicchio, 2006, p. 138.
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