“She walked along the southern side aisle, dragging her hand along the wall, feeling the rough texture of the stones, running her fingernails over the shallow grooves made by the stonemason’s toothed chisel. Here in the aisles, under the windows, the wall was decorated with blind arcading, like a row of filled-in arches. The arcading […]
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is one of the great records of 19th-century American consciousness. Ruminating on the concept of whiteness, Melville writes: Not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous––why, as we have seen, it […]
“––Ruling passion strong in death, says Joe, as someone said. ––That can be explained by science, says Bloom. It’s only a natural phenomenon, don’t you see, because on account of the… And then he starts with his jawbreakers about phenomenon and science and this phenomenon and the other phenomenon.” ––Ulysses, by James Joyce, pg. 303 […]