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Jeeeeeeeeeez louiiiiiiiiiiiise. Hope you’re safe and okay

Sour grapes, Sarah

Well which was it?

Jk, I do agree with the symbolists, just not the rose and cross

Poor bastard was so excited

Oh of Moby dick. Left that part out

Coincidentally the amount you’d have to pay me to see it

Thanks Jimmy, that’s awfully big of you

Surprise! It’s a euphemism! Sex time

Omg Erin not you showing up like “what if this piece of writing . . . Was better? Imagine with me for a moment, won’t you?”

We’ll always have Napoleon together

I would argue, though, from what little of Cervantes’ and Melville’s biographies I have and certainly from the books themselves that Cervantes was less interested in building “Spanish or Castilian Letters” than Melville was self-consciously motivated by producing a “Uniquely American novel”.