1. 15 May


    invisiblestories: Some of Melville’s rough notes for the composition of Moby-Dick, written on the rear flyleaf of the seventh volume of his set of The dramatic works of William Shakespeare: with a life of the poet and notes, original and selected, published by Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1837 (via Harvard) Charles Olson provides a transcription of the text in Call Me Ishmael: Ego non baptizo te in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti—sed in nomine Diaboli.—madness is undefinable— It & right reason extremes of one,—not the (black art) Goetic but Theurgic magic—seeks converse with the Intelligence, Power, the Angel.

    invisiblestories:

    Some of Melville’s rough notes for the composition of Moby-Dick, written on the rear flyleaf of the seventh volume of his set of The dramatic works of William Shakespeare: with a life of the poet and notes, original and selected, published by Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1837 (via Harvard)

    Charles Olson provides a transcription of the text in Call Me Ishmael:

    Ego non baptizo te in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti—sed in nomine Diaboli.—madness is undefinable—

    It & right reason extremes of one,—not the (black art) Goetic but Theurgic magic—seeks converse with the Intelligence, Power, the Angel.

    (via stealingintolanguage)

     
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