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The Herman Melville Appreciation Society

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    Welcome: Fans of Melville, writers, poets, whalers, sailors, readers, jack-tars, scriveners, transcendentalists, those with 19th century facial hair, brooders, harpooneers, foretopmen, phallainophobes, and any consumptive grammar school ushers.

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Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer

I suggest that our distinguished Society use our enemy's ow…

4 DELETED Scott Scott Feb 29, 2012 11:49am

Favorite Melville work?

I'm going with Bartelby the Scrivener.

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Will 2012 be the biggest year for Herman Melville discussion in human history?

I don't see how it couldn't be.

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Have you shamed a whale today?

Good areas to focus on:   1) Their weight.   2) T…

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Punishments for sailors from the 15th to 19th centuries

Feel free to add your own!

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Aquatic Ape hypothesis proved by existence of whales

I haven't read Elaine Morgan's book, but the mere fact that…

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When Whales Attack - The Deadly Pilot Whale

"A snorkeler swims with a pod of pilot whales off the coast…

2 DELETED Scott Scott Sep 8, 2011 7:31am

What can you do to increase HMA in your community?

1) Speak grandiloquently. 2) Scrimshaw your own teeth. 3) S…

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19th century facial hair

Why was it so glorious?  What was it about society at …

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Whales: Great danger or the greatest?

Hmm?

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Is echolocation an invasion of privacy?

Don't send your sound waves through me.

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Was Melville's interaction with Nathanial Hawthorne stalking or just the exuberance of an earnest fanboy?

Some background:  Melville dedicated Moby-Dick to Hawt…

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Creepiest type of whale?

Without a doubt, the Beluga.

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Whale oil

Eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuel?

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Would you have been for or against flogging on 19th century ships?

Consider the ramifications.

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