I didn't go to book school. I went to books.
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
>>25041703Melville must have been genuinely nuts when he wrote this
>>25041703until quite recently i thought of the beluga whale as the sperm whale (the descriptions of the sack of spermaceti made me think of it's pouch on the head) and just thought they were huge back when they whaled for them, lul
>>25041700Ray Bradbury said this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>25041700Ask not what books can do for you. Ask what you can do for books.
>>25041700Ohhhh it shows anon! Oh it showwwws!
a book a day keeps senile dementia away
my question is how does someone get street-smart? Reading a lot of street signs?
