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Melville and Hawthorne, along with others, on a nature trek.
— Dec 18, 2025 12:44PM
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Here's a typical sentence showing the granularity of this biography: "Richard Lathers called, the easier to do because he was staying with Mrs. Thurston on Bond Street." (p. 803) Of course it's easier! Seriously, Lathers, Thurston, what they to Melville or Melville to them? What is the importance of Bond Street? Parker is giving us almost everything known about the Melville family and its friends and acquaintances.
— Dec 22, 2025 05:58AM
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Dec 18, 2025 04:57PM
I didn’t mention in my review of Kraznahorkai’s Spadework for a Palace that much of it is about Melville - and often referring to his walks. He goes on and on about it, but I. The end didn’t say much. Only suggesting that for all those who have biographied Melville, he didn’t feel he ever got to know what he was like.
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Andrew wrote: "I didn’t mention in my review of Kraznahorkai’s Spadework for a Palace that much of it is about Melville - and often referring to his walks. He goes on and on about it, but I. The end didn’t say mu..."Doubt any biography will ever tell us the full story about its subject.
I would think that someone would (or has already) invent a fictional and fantastic novel about Melville that would fit the bill. Something akin to what Leon Rooke has done with Shakespeare.
