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    Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.
    Prynne on going to America in the early part of his writing career: "Gradually I became less cocksure. It made me have strong...
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    Benny Bunter replied to the thread Herman Melville.
    Finished Moby Dick now, best novel I've ever read. What's his best book after this? If it's even half as good it'll be worth reading.
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    Benny Bunter reacted to line b's post in the thread Herman Melville with Like Like.
    But all of the 'signs' say that the ship is doomed and the hunt for moby dick will lead to disaster so that contradicts that. Loved...
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    Benny Bunter reacted to line b's post in the thread Herman Melville with Like Like.
    And thats what I took from the final image of Tahego grabbing the hawk from the sky and taking it down with the boat. The bird as this...
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    Benny Bunter reacted to line b's post in the thread Herman Melville with Like Like.
    I finished moby dick a couple days ago. Feel like the book mocks you with its ending as its a sort of an anti climax that reminds you...
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    Benny Bunter replied to the thread J. H. Prynne.
    They're good stabs I think. The good thing is that no one can say that you're wrong, so stab away!
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    Benny Bunter reacted to sus's post in the thread J. H. Prynne with Like Like.
    The challenge is a not a moral excitement, but the expanse, the continuing patience dilating into forms so much more than compact. I...
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    Benny Bunter reacted to sus's post in the thread J. H. Prynne with Like Like.
    The night is already quiet and I am bound in the rise and fall: learning to wish always for more. This is the means, the extension to...
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    Benny Bunter replied to the thread J. H. Prynne.
    Yeah, it's the mood it creates that's the most important thing
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    Benny Bunter reacted to luka's post in the thread J. H. Prynne with Like Like.
    I generally thpught of it as staying up bare late wsiting for the world to get quiet... occupy the silence. Maybe write a bit
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    Benny Bunter reacted to version's post in the thread J. H. Prynne with Like Like.
    I didn't really register any sort of meaning when I read it just now. What struck me was a sense of smoothness, like watching a water...
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    Benny Bunter replied to the thread J. H. Prynne.
    There was time when i thought I had a grip on what he was on about in these poems from the white stones, but every time i come back to...
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    Benny Bunter replied to the thread J. H. Prynne.
    I love this one too, so beautiful - "bound in the rise and fall: learning to wish always for more" Moon Poem JH Prynne The night is...
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    Benny Bunter reacted to sus's post in the thread J. H. Prynne with Love Love.
    Been reading Moon poem every night before bed and copying it down. Incredible incredible incredible
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    Benny Bunter reacted to version's post in the thread An Emergent Order with Like Like.
    The Humpty Dumpty of tradition has fallen off the wall. God is dead. Modernism attempts to put the pieces back together again, although...
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