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《白鯨記》裡頭有一群「為最崇高的悲劇而設的」人物，也有專為這些悲劇角色所設之最適當的一個敵人：一條白鯨。就梅爾維爾而言，這並不是一個容易創造的寓言，因為他同他的英雄在感情上是一致的，但是在理智上卻是不贊同他的。他寫了「一本壞書」－這是他寫完以後說的話－但是，他感覺到「好像綿羊似的潔白無暇」。捕鯨是梅爾維爾的最愛－確實是最愛，昔日他親身出海捕鯨；《白鯨記》寫成後，他也以文字捕住了一條不死的鯨。
“It’s a horrifying step toward extinction."
We will be honoring Herman Melville as the #ClassicsInContext Author of the month for August! Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City. Melville is a renowned American novelist, poet, and short story writer, most notably for 'Moby Dick' and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.' At the start of his life, he and his family lived in luxury, only to plunge into poverty once his father died shortly after the failure of his import business in 1832. The author later embarked on a whaling voyage in the South Seas that inspired his early novels 'Typee' and 'Omoo.'
Today is Herman Melville’s 200th birthday. For the past century, his fame has known no bounds, his reputation no rest, his life no privacy—something he desperately sought, and found at a farm in the Berkshires.
Happy 200th Birthday to Herman Melville, born on this day in 1819 in New York, NY.
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!”
― from MOBY DICK (1851) by Herman Melville
― from MOBY DICK (1851) by Herman Melville
"It is not down in any map; true places never are." Today marks 200 years since the birth of MOBY-DICK author Herman Melville. Learn more about Ahab, Ishmael, and the white whale: http://bit.ly/2Kmro8H
我們的高中生涯不無聊，當別班同學在唸祭文範本時，老曹告訴我們白鯨記的故事。梅爾維爾二百歲生日快樂。
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