Summary: Life is paradox.<br> -The Voice before the Void<br> There is Life Before Reading Moby-Dick, and There is Life After Reading Moby-Dick<br> Works mentioned:<br> Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis<br> Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville<br> Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour<br> <a href="https://www.thevoicebeforethevoid.net/the-fiddler-by-herman-melville/">“The Fiddler” by Herman Melville</a><br> 50 Great American Short Stories edited by Milton Crane<br> “I and My Chimney” by Herman Melville<br> Great Short Works of Herman Melville edited by Warner Berthoff<br> The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger<br> Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes<br> War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy<br> “Arma Virumque” by Ambrose Bierce<br> The Sermon on the Mount by Jesus<br> The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare<br> The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare<br> In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick<br> The Sea-Wolf by Jack London<br> The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot<br> Other authors mentioned:<br> Homer<br> Mark Twain<br> Robert Benchley<br> Patrick F. McManus<br> Nathaniel Hawthorne<br> Edgar Allan Poe<br> H.P. Lovecraft<br>
