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How a Voyage to French Polynesia Set Herman Melville on the Course to Write 'Moby-Dick'
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/voyage-french-polynesia-herman-melville-course-write-moby-dick-180972525/
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Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000-page novel
https://theconversation.com/just-as-the-world-appears-to-be-losing-its-appetite-for-books-william-t-vollmann-pens-a-3-000-page-novel-288326?utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-39242&utm_content=daily-newsletter-39242_us%7C3%7C39242%7C82d6f47d&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=Just+as+the+world+appears+to+be+losing+its+appetite+for+books%2C+William+T.+Vollmann+pens+a+3%2C000-page+novel
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Trying to regain blogging momentum, so wrote up a post thinking about Quixote alongside Vollmann's The Ice-Shirt, so far.
https://nearerandfarther.com/notes/first-sentences-23-and-24-don-quixote-the-ice-shirt/
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"Should I dream one dream or seven?"
-- First sentence of William Vollmann, *The Ice-Shirt*
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(Started this morning. #ReadingNotes will go here.)
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@coolgrey Vollmann belongs topmost on your sf fiction list: Whores For Gloria, Royal Family, Rainbow Stories, Lucky Star
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