>Villain is a barely cognizant force of nature I find this trope kino. Are there any good classics like this? I've read stuff like The Library and Metamorphoses and like them
>>25412142Moby-Dick
>>25412142Ancient paganism mythos
>>25412148I should get around to this
>>25412190It definitely deserves its reputation. Ahab's speeches are definitely a standout, but the rest of the book is also fantastic.[Sudden, repeated flashes of lightning; the nine flames leap lengthwise to thrice their previous height; Ahab, with the rest, closes his eyes, his right hand pressed hard upon them.]“I own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so? Nor was it wrung from me; nor do I now drop these links. Thou canst blind; but I can then grope. Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes. Take the homage of these poor eyes, and shutter-hands. I would not take it. The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. Oh, oh! Yet blindfold, yet will I talk to thee. Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee! The javelins cease; open eyes; see, or not? There burn the flames! Oh, thou magnanimous! now I do glory in my genealogy. But thou art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know not. Oh, cruel! what hast thou done with her? There lies my puzzle; but thine is greater. Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun. I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent. There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical. Through thee, thy flaming self, my scorched eyes do dimly see it. Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief. Here again with haughty agony, I read my sire. Leap! leap up, and lick the sky! I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!”
>>25412142Melville is the obvious suggestion. Lots of lesser works:Frankenstein (sort of)Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy (sort of)The Terror by Dan SimmonsA Momentary Taste Of Being by James Tiptree Jr (sort of)The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
>>25412223i bought the last one and moby dick
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>>25412761I love you too
I love my wife Arcueid
