"...there is an aesthetics in all things...." Moby Dick, Chapter 60 ("The Line")
It took Robert Pirsig (whom I love, by the way) over 400 pages to get to this. Melville does it in half of a sentence.
And furthermore...
...it occurs to me that the reason people mock Moby Dick or even deem it unreadable is precisely the reason that I love this book: it constantly drifts away from the narrative to explore ideas, objects, and people.
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