Quite often I write a couple of paragraphs for some entry on my blog, including mostly information that is as superficial as it is useless. Who really would care for instance, what I am reading at the moment, when all I have to offer are a couple of lines offering no special insight.
However, this time I choose to ignore the doubts and offer a few lines about... what I am reading at the moment. That is, not about D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, or about Tristram Shandy, which I am rereading, not even about Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet, a commentator's darling. No, this is going to be about a book that is not very much talked about: Herman Melville's third novel, Mardi, And A Voyage Thither.

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