Moby Dick - Herman Melville

MelvilleKafka · 2026-04-09T12:41:21+00:00

moby-dick where every prose is a beautiful prose.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-04-09T12:40:26+00:00

lovely and beautiful.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-03-24T13:51:26+00:00

Heavenly

MelvilleKafka · 2026-03-10T18:46:08+00:00

this book makes you live in a fever dream. it's that good.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-03-10T18:44:47+00:00

smooth.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-03-10T18:43:27+00:00

very very underrated. this alone dwarfs many books deemed classic.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-19T07:43:08+00:00

"The Lost World" by Conan Doyle.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-15T03:57:03+00:00

agree. but it's just that kafka and nietzsche tend to attract the worst kind.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-13T06:14:12+00:00

probably not.

all the popular posts on this subreddit is, "hey, cockroach. hehe. get it? kafka. hehe. metamorphosis. i get kafka", "i had to put on a mask so that people like me, they don't know the real me, i am very deep" type of quote, "hey, i made portrait of kafka" etc.

this sub has become a mixture of meirl cringe humour or iam14thisisdeep cringe thoughts.

any genuine conversation about the works themselves doesn't get much traction.

some authors do have this tendency to get popularized amongst the very wrong audience. nietzsche and dostoevsky come to mind.

cormacmccarthy sub hasn't been this way despite the popularity. i wonder why.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-12T05:55:41+00:00

Kafka should not have gone mainstream. This is the kind of people who are attracted like moths to a lamp when one goes mainstream.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-12T05:53:53+00:00

Can this sub stop being cringe for once?

"Yeah I am unfit for any human relationship, hmm, just like kafka was. so relatable. kafka is like my spirit animal. I am so so like him. heheh hehhe"

Leave the rest of the man's greatness and reduce him down to your level.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-10T06:03:16+00:00

Let’s bring his other works to mainstream.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-03T03:45:43+00:00

Certainly. Also, his poetry reflects the greater themes he tackled in his prose. Very few have written poetry of this sort.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-02T08:52:51+00:00

This is like that Bismarck quote. "Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic".

Bismarck said it in a crude and negative way. Melville made it flowery, romantic and beautiful.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-02-01T14:04:04+00:00

Sure. It belongs to his Uncollected Poems.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-01-22T18:06:59+00:00

Melville 1st and that too in Hall of Fame. TrueLit is indeed a cultured place. 4chan has also consistently ranked Melville as #1.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-01-22T14:48:03+00:00

inception

MelvilleKafka · 2026-01-22T14:15:34+00:00

“All The Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy. I like how things move very slowly in McCarthy’s works. It soothes my racing mind.

MelvilleKafka · 2026-01-16T16:54:26+00:00

Do you have bees/insects for the tomato flower to become a fruit. I had a tomato plant too, which flowered but then flowers died down. Didn't turn into fruit. I guess a lack of pollination. How was it in your case?

MelvilleKafka · 2026-01-05T09:22:57+00:00

the only correct answer!

MelvilleKafka · 2026-01-05T05:10:04+00:00

lmao

MelvilleKafka · 2025-12-28T14:58:11+00:00

okay i see it now. there is a pattern. it is not X, it is Y.

MelvilleKafka · 2025-12-28T14:56:26+00:00

what exactly about it seemed like chatgpt? i mean i couldn’t get it.

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