thistle

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songs

  • like someone in love by bjork
  • blue factory flame by songs: ohia
  • thoughtless kind by john cale
  • 4st 7lb by manic street preachers
  • psoriatic by scott walker
  • for those too high aspiring by grant hart
  • heat by david bowie
  • dum dum boys by iggy pop

favorite websites

  • https://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/
  • https://newmaterialwant.com/
  • https://melvillesmarginalia.org/
  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sedov_Brigade

to cook

  • merguez
  • couscous
  • fried chicken
  • ceviche
  • rhode island clam chowder
  • steak like khaled makes it
  • something with shallot in red wine vinegar

Ishmael is:

  • sturdy | "of a broad-shouldered make" (XVI)
  • at least in his late-20s | "I had been four voyages in the merchant [service]—” (XVI)
  • suicidal | "This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship." (I)
  • practical | " I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble." (I)
  • a dreamer | "I — being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude" (XXXV)
  • a journeyman | "been a stone-mason... a great digger of ditches, canals, and wells, and wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts" (CIV)
  • an educator | "The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it." (1)
  • death-aware | "I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will... This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing." (XLVI)
  • a liar | "I know it to be true; it happened on this ball; I trod the ship; I knew the crew; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney.'" (LIV)
  • unwed to women | "but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottoms of their souls..." (X)
  • married to a man | "he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married" (X)
  • seeking | "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it" (I)

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