The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u2013quoted in Jane Langton\u2019s Dark Nantucket Noon<\/em>, which I just finished. It\u2019s a purplish murder mystery in which almost all of the twists are easily guessable; but it\u2019s still affecting, and it has brought me as close as I\u2019ve ever been to actually wanting to read Moby-Dick so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick? \u2013quoted in Jane Langton\u2019s Dark Nantucket Noon, which I just finished. It\u2019s a purplish murder mystery in which almost all of the twists are easily guessable; but it\u2019s still affecting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[244,245],"class_list":["post-7013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-herman-melville","tag-the-imagination-of-mans-heart"],"yoast_head":"\n
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