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Not loving a lot about this collection so far

I wish this was more interesting!!

"Ah! Madame Bovary," he thought, "is much prettier, especially fresher, Virginie is decidedly beginning to grow fat. She is so finikin with her pleasures; and besides, she has a mania for prawns."

constant funny edgy gay pop culture humor as if i'm scrolling twitter years ago all over again

A scene of a sailor accidentally falling into an open Sperm Whale's vat-like head and then that head falling into the ocean and then that sailor being cut and birthed out of the head underwater by Queequeg immediately followed by a chapter attempting to do phrenology on whales about sums it up.

Oh yeah. Robot Sherlock Holmes is exactly where it's at and Wolfe is exactly the right guy to handle it.

"What's wrong with looking good?"
She ponders this semi-thoughtfully. "Well, what if it's at the expense of something else? I'm not implying anything. It's just a hypothetical. Don't be insulted."
"I forgot the question."
"What if it's at the expense of something else?"
"What's... something else?"

Sooo rewarding to suspect Meiville was intentionally doing something metaphorically Train-related by his continuous use of ampersands instead of "and" & I get a whole chapter talking about how right and smart I specifically am thank you China

This girl does not seem to be doing alright.

"Cave had a lot of dark in it. It was full up with shadow. & something else. Something that, blaring that noise, suddenly & loud & awful, came out. I won't call it a train. Trains, in all their varieties, are machines made for carrying us. This was for nothing but itself. It came out of that hole in silver fire."

It's taking some willpower to not simply consume this one entirely.

beautiful writing!