{"id":61505,"date":"2013-10-18T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61505"},"modified":"2013-10-18T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:39:38","slug":"or-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/or-the-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Or, the Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/COMIC-classics-illustrated-moby-dicklarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61506\" alt=\"COMIC classics illustrated moby dicklarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/COMIC-classics-illustrated-moby-dicklarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/COMIC-classics-illustrated-moby-dicklarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/COMIC-classics-illustrated-moby-dicklarge-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1851, <em>Moby-Dick<\/em> was published. In a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne shortly afterward, Melville wrote,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 for not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Appreciation! Recognition! Is Jove appreciated? Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of his great allegory\u2014the world? Then we pigmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended. I say your appreciation is my glorious gratuity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, recognition did indeed come, albeit posthumously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick was published. In a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne shortly afterward, Melville wrote, \u2026 for not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. Appreciation! Recognition! Is Jove appreciated? 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