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    Moby Dick is my favourite book - I think. I have read it 3 times now (in different stages of life, or moods) and it has always been surprising and inspiring. I think that's what makes a good book, a classic, or "your" book (among others, of course, but just "that" book). A book you keep reading and re-reading as you go on with your life. "Moby Dick" is that kind of book to me.

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    • I just like the way Melville writes. There's something hilarious about it, despite the author being a total wifebeater.cannonball
    • a wifebeater? Had no clue. Still a piece of good writing has nothing to do with your intimacy, I believe.Witt
    • I don't understand why you bring it up, cannonball - most great authors and artists have "despicable" lives.Witt
    • Picasso was a cunt. Van Gogh was mad. Golding was a drunkard. Coleridge was a drug addict. And so on...Witt
    • All of the above treated their wifes like shit.Witt
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