Casper van Dijk@caspervandyk · 2026-07-27

melville wrote a cetology textbook, hid a novel in it, and nobody noticed for seventy years

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David Kim@davidkim · 2026-07-28i reread it every winter, it's a whole ritual now Tomás Rivera@tomasrivera · 2026-07-28this is the exact reason i started reading again Arjun Mehta@arjun_mehta · 2026-07-27underrated take honestly Sam Okafor@sam_okafor · 2026-07-27genuinely one of my favourite books and nobody i know has read it Nadia Volkova@nadia_volkova · 2026-07-27this made me go pull it off the shelf