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Notes from a Skerry.

gibbous moon high
assassin of koans

Cerberus overshares

"It fits what Grothendieck characterized as effectively 'mansion maintenance' rather than mansion-conceptualization."

“By the way, Melville reads Old Books. He has borrowed Sir Thomas Browne of me and says finely of the speculations of the Religio Medici that Browne is a kind of 'crack'd Archangel.' Was ever anything of this sort said before by a sailor? - Evert Duyckinck to his brother George.

Upon his return from adventures at sea, Evert Duyckinck had given Melville the freedom of his 16,000 volume library."

—@gregorykindall

Umwelt.