“ Being a somewhat dark person myself, I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive. ”
Laurie Anderson on Moby Dick (via grey-girl)
(I am reminded a little of Quentin Crisp and the Great Dark Man. Also, “A sense of unspeakable security is in me this moment, on account of your having understood the book. I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb,” a passage Melville wrote about Moby Dick in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne. I think there are many ways that this idea of text exploring the mysterious thing is very apt.)
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