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All and the if: God and metaphor in Melville

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Wood, J. (2020). All and the if: God and metaphor in Melville. In Wood, J. Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 372-392

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So Mleville slapped at God. He could not help playing the infidel: he is one of hte most delvingly sacrilegious writers who has ever existed. For him, metaphysics could not stop like a day-trip at some calm watering-place. Dialectic was always an elastic solitude stretching into the desert. [...]

whoa

—p.378 by James Wood 3 years, 3 months ago

So Mleville slapped at God. He could not help playing the infidel: he is one of hte most delvingly sacrilegious writers who has ever existed. For him, metaphysics could not stop like a day-trip at some calm watering-place. Dialectic was always an elastic solitude stretching into the desert. [...]

whoa

—p.378 by James Wood 3 years, 3 months ago