Status Updates From The Confidence Man: His Mas...

God these sentences are harder than I remember. It may be I am older, stupider and more tired but I find myself having to re-read them a few times on occasion before I actually understand what is being said....(for the avoidance of doubt this is something good/fun so not a criticism...)

Re reading this in the new Norton critical edition. First time I read it was during Trump Season 1 so makes sense I do it again during Season 2. This edition is fantastic and massively deepens my understanding of this extraordinary, and extraordinarily complex, text.

This is one of the most insane books ever written

I’ve been known to go to bat for Timon of Athens but Herman Melville really fucking loves Timon of Athens

Becoming achingly clear that the titular con man is an allegorical Charon ushering everyone toward judgement. Not from God though, but from one another