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...Britain’s cetaphobia, boosted by Thomas Hobbes, persisted into the modern age....
...The Perfect Golden Circleby Benjamin Myers, Bloomsbury £16.99/Melville House $27.99 Summer 1989, and the UK is gripped by crop-circle mania....
...All the same, the reader who is prepared to surrender to the novel’s spell receives in return the compelling sense — comparable to the novels of Thomas Pynchon or David Peace — of being inducted into a dark...
...Or, thinking of Viscount Melville, whose statue looms over Edinburgh, the politician whose manoeuvring delayed its abolition by at least a decade?...
...Tony Barber FT Europe commentator In times of quarantine the place to go is Herman Melville and Moby Dick....
...There is a firm trio of officers, sung by Thomas Oliemans, David Soar and Peter Kellner....
...What all the most unbuttoned wordies — from Rabelais through Leopardi, whose Zibaldone, or “hodgepodge” book, ran to thousands of pages, from Herman Melville to James Joyce, Salman Rushdie and David Foster...
...Nicolson references Heaney and Yeats, Melville and Milton, but his own writing sparkles too, with beautiful accompanying illustrations by artist Kate Boxer....
...The conversation, as on each occasion they prepare a family dinner, deals with bereavement (in March they had just returned from scattering the ashes of elder brother and playwright Thomas), class and money...
...Photo Toby Melville/Reuters...
...Like the philosopher Thomas Nagel, who asked “What is it like to be a bat?”...
...Sir, Your continuous coverage of Hinkley Point has begun to resemble a serialised version of Moby-Dick, with Thomas Piquemal, the former chief financial officer of EDF, in the role of Starbuck, David Cameron...
...In the first play, Hungry, the Gabriels had gathered to mourn their brother Thomas, a playwright. Now in play two, What Did You Expect?...
...Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Malory, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, bel canto opera, French classical music, the myth of Sisyphus....
...Rebecca Rose Fiction in translation The Happy Marriage, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by André Naffis-Sahely, Melville House, RRP£18.99/$25.95 As he recovers from a stroke, a Moroccan artist reminisces...
...As Herman Melville’s office anti-hero Bartleby might say: “I would prefer not to.”...
.../ From Thomas V Czarnowski Mysterious workings of German postal service / From Indermohan Virk An expensive luxury whose day is over / From Jan Manning...
...Asked if they write letters, most people would echo the DLO’s famous fictional former clerk Bartleby in the Herman Melville story: “I would prefer not to.”...
...“Look at Britten himself – he found inspiration in Henry Purcell, Thomas Mann and Herman Melville. I’m following the same principle.”...
...Thomas Singlehurst, analyst at Citi, said despite being mildly ahead of expectations the results did not mark “a turning point”....
...I seemed to experience Melville’s “shock of recognition”; which is to say re-cognition, for it was there already, waiting to be reawakened – the knowledge that some things, not least what it is that makes...
...It hangs here alongside Thomas Girtin’s “The White House”, and the pair encapsulate how between the 1790s and 1840s British artists transformed watercolour from the documentary to the expressive....
...Daddy had once told me, paraphrasing Melville, that “a good novel must have a great theme.” I was certain my story had that. But I didn’t fully know my characters....
...As the ascendancy of Thomas Edison over Nikola Tesla shows, self-promotion can often be more important than achievement. But then another 500 years could change this too....
...The poet of choice remains Whitman, whose “At Ship’s Helm” has inspired a quietly ecstatic contribution from Michael Tilson Thomas....
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