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burningvelvet · 11 days

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36 chapters into moby dick. some thoughts:

- take a shot every time he expresses his love for nantucket or whaling trivia

- i know everyone said it was queer and usually i've come to expect that as hyperbole but this time they weren't joking

- CHILDE HAROLD REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?! BYRON QUOTED?!?!?!?! not surprised bc it is the romantic genre which byron & chp helped inspire & he was the best selling writer in early 19c usa & is noted for his oceanic refs & he & esp childe harolds pilgrimage esp are both noted on wikipedia's "nautical fiction" page but like. i had no idea they were immortalized in moby dick

- "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

- does gay cannibal tumblr know about queequeg & ishmael?

- utterly obsessed with captain ahab for numerous reasons but does anyone else notice how similar he is to captain flint from black sails? like he's literally him but a bit older & combined with silver's leglessness.

- the part where ahab calls stubb a dog lmao

- ishmael getting worried for queequeg when he couldn't find him omg...

- "Where's that girl ? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with — 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' — might as well kill both birds at once." MRS. HUSSEY!!!!

- i'm sure that all the focus on queequegs spirituality & his consultation with his god yojo wherein he was informed that ishmael had to pick their boat bc yojo demaded it TOTALLY won't prove to have any prophetic and symbolic consequences later on or anything

- love how the chapters are nice and short but on the flip side that means theyre tricking me into thinking i have less to go than i actually do... as long as i get more ahab i'm good i guess

-melville, at random: and now we take a break from our regularly schedule programming to give you . . . WHALE FACTS! [whips out multiple books on the history of whales and whaling, begins to recite]

#moby dick #currently reading #book reviews #book thoughts #book opinions #literature #american literature #classic literature #herman melville #childe harold’s pilgrimage #captain flint #captain ahab #ishmael #queequeg #lit #classic lit #novels #books

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funeral · 8 months

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Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — Canto IV

#lord byron #childe harold’s pilgrimage #on suffering #poetry #quotes #p

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blackhyena · 10 months

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Lord Byron, ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, canto III.

#lord byron #george gordon lord byron #byron #quote #p #childe harold’s pilgrimage #romanticism #romantic poetry #romantic poets #19th century poetry

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spookyscribe · 7 months

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But in Man's dwellings he became a thing

Restless and worn, and stern and wearisome,

Droop'd as a wild-born falcon with clipt wing,

To whom the boundless air alone were home:

Then came his fit again, which to o'ercome,

As eagerly the barr'd-up bird will beat

His breast and beak against his wiry dome

Till the blood tinge his plumage, so the heat

Of his impeded soul would through his bosom eat.

— Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto The Third,

XV, by George Gordon Lord Byron

#just listening to an audio recording of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage on a Sunday morning as I work on a puzzle #as one does #Lord Byron #childe harold’s pilgrimage #george gordon byron

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hyperions-fate · 4 months

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

#Byron #Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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qvotable · 2 years

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And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.

Lord Byron; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

#lord byron #childe harold's pilgrimage #text #quote #quotes #love #love quotes #life #life quotes #relationship #relationship quotes #beautiful #aesthetic #art #indie #hipster

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strongheartmaid · 1 year

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Ishmael, for the love of all that’s holy - if you’re going to quote Byron, fucking quote him properly! Your version:

“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.”

The correct version from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:

CLXXIX

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll!

Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain

Although, now that I’m reading that full stanza - you’re doing more foreshadowing, aren’t you?

the full stanza:

CLXXIX.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

#whale weekly #lord byron #childe harold's pilgrimage #you really love foreshadowing don't you

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shimyereh · 11 months

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Some pretty covers from editions of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

(1869, 1900, 1856, 1855)

#byron #childe harold's pilgrimage

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muadweeb · 1 year

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HAROLD IN CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE BY LORD BYRON

ROBERT BARATHEON IN A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE BY GEORGE R R MARTIN

#lord byron #childe harold's pilgrimage #narrative poem #asoiaf #robert baratheon #valyrianscrolls #valyriansource #robert baratheon is MY byronic hero sorry #a song of ice and fire

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burningvelvet · 1 year

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you’re not allowed to criticize lord byron unless you’ve read his complete works or at the very least all of don juan and childe harold’s pilgrimage back to back. the byromania was understandable. you would have been one of the thousands of girls sending him locks of pubic hair in the mail and stalking him too