part of the reason Moby Dick is so long and goes into so much detail about the intricate biology of ocean life and the philosophy of whales & whaling is because Melville was trying to recreate for the reader the experience of being on a long, arduous, meditative voyage at sea
the medium is the message
Same is true for Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
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man, what a book
No kidding. Reading that book is like a fever dream. First hundred pages are hard to get through, but that seems to be by design. A lot like Moby Dick.
