a. natasha joukovsky
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After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
James Baldwin | GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
“A large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease.”
Thomas Love Peacock | NIGHTMARE ABBEY
"We are most of us like Don Quixote, to whom a windmill was a giant, and Dulcinea a magnificent princess: all more or less the dupes of our own imagination..."
“We are most of us like Don Quixote, to whom a windmill was a giant, and Dulcinea a magnificent princess: all more or less the dupes of our own imagination, though we do not all go so far as to see ghosts, or to fancy ourselves pipkins and teapots.”