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Monsters

Herman Melville Drinks Your Milkshake

by Micah Towery May 13, 2010 Academia

I was fortunate enough to have a American Literature professor who blew off the typical survey class BS and just gave us some of the best literature of the 19th century: Hawthorne, Dickinson, Melville, among others… In that class, I read Moby-Dick for the first time. I believe I read most of it over the course…

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Poem Thing

by Bianca Stone April 26, 2010 Art
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I create the whole universe blink by blink

by Evan Hansen April 25, 2010 John Gardner

I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe blink by blink… “The world resists me and I resist the world,” I said. “That’s all…

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