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Friday, March 27, 2026

Project MUSE - A Third Update on Books Owned, Borrowed, and Consulted by Herman Melville

Link below to a gem in the latest Leviathan with exciting news of recovered markings and marginalia in Melville's set of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. By Christopher Ohge and Brandon Hurst who are also taking the editorial reins at Melville's Marginalia Online.


πŸ™πŸ™Thanks to Founding Editors Steven Olsen-Smith and Peter Norberg and every contributor to https://melvillesmarginalia.org/ for a monumental job well done! πŸ‘πŸ‘

Monday, March 23, 2026

Kant's head on the larboard

 

Monday, March 9, 2026

Capturing a sperm whale

Capturing a sperm whale by Scott Norsworthy

Re-presenting the animated 1823 description by Henry J. Pickering aka "Thomas H. Bennett"

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Monday, March 2, 2026

Grassy glades, oh!

Grassy glades, oh! by Scott Norsworthy

a shared trigram in MOBY-DICK and "Scenes Beyond the Western Border"

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