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Title: The Hyena
Review: Sitting in a small room overlooking Mount Graylock on his farm in Pittsfield, Mass, Herman Melville was a magician. There are no words to describe the ineffable, and Moby Dick is *the* novel for anyone who has ever been on a quest; anyone who has wanted to know something that loomed just out of sight.Sure, Ahab hunts the whale...but these chapters pale in comparison to Ishmael's own quest: knowing what the whale is. He is the greatest narrator in the history of fiction. The two chapters: "The Whiteness of the Whale" and "Moby-Dick" are matchless, as are "The Hynea" and the humorous "Bower in the Arsicades." One can envision Ishmael covered in tatoos of the whale's dimensions.Is Moby-Dick tedious? Only if you're reading it as cetology. But as allegory, it is a tale of limitless drive--even self-consuming drives.Best book ever...
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