>>25115496
I have an idea for a story
>MC wakes up and goes for a walk
>Wants to find the biggest tree in the forest
>200 pages of tree facts
>200 pages of tree philosophy
>The end

There’s no meme, it’s truly brilliant… a little on the homo side though

>>25115504
Needs to have a page called "Amber" detailing how a tree was responsible for the rise of the science of electromagnetism.

>>25115496
One of the GOATs, not even Ulysses managed to dethrone it for me.
Check out Milton when you're done, he was one of the main inspirations alongside Shakespeare and KJV. Melville's Pierre and Confidence-Man are also well worth reading, but they're much more difficult and experimental.
>There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have ceased to grow; and all Nature, as if suddenly become conscious of her own profound mystery, and feeling no refuge from it but silence, sinks into this wonderful and indescribable repose.
>No Cornwall miner ever sunk so deep a shaft beneath the sea, as Love will sink beneath the floatings of the eyes. Love sees ten million fathoms down, till dazzled by the floor of pearls. The eye is Love’s own magic glass, where all things that are not of earth, glide in supernatural light. There are not so many fishes in the sea, as there are sweet images in lovers’ eyes. In those miraculous translucencies swim the strange eye-fish with wings, that sometimes leap out, instinct with joy; moist fish-wings wet the lover’s cheek. Love’s eyes are holy things; therein the mysteries of life are lodged; looking in each other’s eyes, lovers see the ultimate secret of the worlds; and with thrills eternally untranslatable, feel that Love is god of all. Man or woman who has never loved, nor once looked deep down into their own lover’s eyes, they know not the sweetest and the loftiest religion of this earth. Love is both Creator’s and Saviour’s gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

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>So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed, as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious particulars in the habits of sperm whales, the foregoing chapter, in its earlier part, is as important a one as will be found in this volume; but the leading matter of it requires to be still further and more familiarly enlarged upon, in order to be adequately understood, and moreover to take away any incredulity which a profound ignorance of the entire subject may induce in some minds, as to the natural verity of the main points of this affair.

>I care not to perform this part of my task methodically; but shall be content to produce the desired impression by separate citations of items, practically or reliably known to me as a whaleman; and from these citations, I take it—the conclusion aimed at will naturally follow of itself.

>>25115567
Pierre is better than MD honestly

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>>25115504
>>25115537
do not forget the 1000 words chapter on why we are scared of the color green

>>25115635
insane take but i respect you for saying it

>>25115567
Poor man's Blood meridian

>>25115496
You are not a real reader if you can't marathon atleast 100 pages of Moby-Dick

>>25115496
>This is a cure for the modern low attention span malaise. Or maybe I fell for a meme.
No, you didn't fall for the meme, or any sort of "meme" that the internet deems "meme-worthy" or whatever the fuck that means.
Moby-Dick is an extremely well written book and the almost-effortless skill, fluidity, lucidity, beauty, and understanding/awareness of the writing and the world Melville lived in makes it so, so, so damn good. It's so good, it ruins most of literature for me (well Melville and Tolstoy together are the greatest). Doesn't help that this was the first book I read to get back into reading.

This book seriously heals you in some ways. It makes you want to describe life in a beautiful and mirthfulness way. I love it, and I'd say it's the greatest thing America has to offer.

>>25115844
>trenchcoats and katanas

>>25115504
Sounds great. Write it.

>>25115504
unironically sounds based but someone like you will botch the execution

>>25115567
The Confidence-Man is a fantastic book. In its own way it's just as much of a great American novel as Moby-Dick.

The chapter Ahab forges his own harpoon like Siegfried and instead of using water to cool it uses the collective blood of the pagan harpooners and baptizes it in the name of the devil in latin is so so, forgive me, metal and cool it makes me shake.

This book is so so good. Melville also correctly deduced that the spout is vapour and not water, which makes the whale emoji spouting water even more nerve wrecking.

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That Symphony chapter bros

/lit/ still pretends this is one of the best books ever written, or did its shills finally die of AIDS and diabetes?

>>25118111
I think on a second read (Where you know what chapters to skip) it's easily a top 5 novel.