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I keep hearing about people taking this book to be a meditation on unrelenting US imperialism and the chapter I just finished is HAUNTING, both in of itself and especially when viewed from that lens. It’s like Melville watched America’s future for the next 200 years and then tried to communicate it to us through a book who’s prescience would reveal itself in time
— May 17, 2023 12:10PM
I keep hearing about people taking this book to be a meditation on unrelenting US imperialism and the chapter I just finished is HAUNTING, both in of itself and especially when viewed from that lens. It’s like Melville watched America’s future for the next 200 years and then tried to communicate it to us through a book who’s prescience would reveal itself in time
