#Benito Cereno

[babadork]

[stastrodome]

Tell Benito, Bartleby and Billy Budd too. How you ever gonna sit and read Omoo?

[thatstudyblrontea]

April 25, 2023

Outdoor reading with the greatest company – angry cats, adorable ducklings with their moms, a particularly friendly peacock that stopped to listen to me reading to him, and oh – my friend was there as well! We had a good time strolling around the park in between study sessions; I read Benito Cereno for the In Translation entry of the Tackle Your Classics reading challenge.

[biblioklept]

Mass-market Monday | Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville, Herman Melville. No collection editor credited. Bantam Books (1989). No cover designer credited. Cover is a detail of Ships and an Approaching Storm Off Owl’s Head, Maine, 1860 by Fitz Hugh Lane. 278 pages. I read Bartleby in 10th grade and took up I prefer not to as a mantra that I’d throw at poor dear Ms. Hall any time she asked me to do…

[p1325]

OMG I'm gonna take an exam tomorrow

So Tomorrow I'm gonna take my advanced American literature. Here's a sum-up of what of some of the works I studied so far:

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Johnathan Edwards: 7 out of 10. Interesting sermon about how to let your deepest fears out. No wonder why very religious/conservative people in the US are so paranoid about everything.

Hannah Dustin's experience: 7.5 out of 10. Through three authors (Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry David Thoreau) it displays how monstrosity is on both sides.

Herman Melville - Benito Cereno: 9 out of 10. I think the novella is an accurate depiction of its time and some elements of it aged well. If you're interested in thriller stories with some Gothic vibes about morality and complex race relations, this is the right story for you.

Henry James - Daisy Miller: 8.5 out of 10. I think Henry James has better works but I liked this story. It delves into morality, class, and gender roles set between 19th century Switzerland and Italy. Daisy Miller's character is somewhat reminiscent of the typical 19th century heroine but with an American twist. It shares many elements with The Great Gatsby tbh

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby: 10 out of 10. Whew, what a story. The chaotic energy, melancholy, glamorous parties, and especially deception. I didn't expect this book to be this intriguing. It's no wonder why they called it 'The Great American Novel' . Funnily enough this story mirrors some elements with Beauty and the Beast and Wuthering Heights

Alex Kuo - The White Jade : 7 out of 10. Although they are short shorties, Alex Kuo could have explored the Asian American experience so much better but it is what it is. It's nice to see how he portrays the hardships and difficulties of Asian migrants in America.

Tim O'Brien - Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong and How To Tell A True War Story: 10 out of 10. Wow, The Things They Carried didn't have to go this hard. This book almost snatched my wig by how emotionally tough it was. These two stories are less emotional but more traumatic compared to the other ones.

Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain: 10 out of 10. I had already watched the movie years ago but wow, the short story is as heartbreaking as the movie. It's a story about the immense power of love and how pure and beautiful love is. Well done Ms. Annie Proux, Well done.

Mohja Kahf - Emails from Scheherazade: 10 out of 10. This collection of poems impressed me with the resilience and strength of the character. As a Muslim progressive woman (which might sound like a paradox to some people) she actually respects her origins without tearing anyone down and at the same time, she fights against society's prejudices. This poem collection made me think of some progressive Muslims who are torn down by both sides of society see the Far-Right in the West and Islamic societies in the Middle East. Also, one of her poems really sounds like the ultimate American experience, I'm referring to Voyage Duster If you know what I mean.

[devils-acre]

Benito Cereno art for my English class

Historical fashion stuff below

From right to left in the lineup its Cereno, Babo, and Delano.

For Cereno, he’s described as having a neat velvet suit and a sombrero(???) so I gave him that.

Babo is literally only described once as wearing trousers made from topsail fabric so I drew him in a basic 18th century sailor outfit

Delano is wearing a naval suit from hopefully around 1799 if the singular painting I found is accurate. I didn’t make his hair accurate because he seems like the kind of person to be behind the times and also cause I didn’t want to make him ugly :D I hate early 19th century hair

Here’s the painting I referenced for Cereno and Delano:

(Nelson receiving the surrender of the San José by Daniel Orme, painted 1799)

[dinosaurgiantpenny]

[benito-cereno]

Hi Benito,

I recently found Apocropals and am only on episode 15, but thank you for sharing, you and Chris are hilarious- I’ve been listening through at my new desk job. I was hoping to learn more about the Bible as an agnostic raised Non-Dom Christian and learn enough to connect and hold conversations with my father about his faith. I’m not reading along but I didn’t know I would laugh so much listening, thank you for making these ancient texts more accessible to a queer 20-something in the modern era. I really value your historical perspectives, and the emphasis on wizards.

My question is only kind of related, but I just finally logged back on my antisocial media and found your tumblr- I had no idea you wrote on the Tick, and I am a fan of the series.

This my best news all week- I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy a physical copy of the Tick comics- do you get a cut/royalties of all purchases of The Tick: The Complete Edlund New Edition? I would love to order from somewhere where I know for sure you (and the other authors) are getting the most support you can for your work, could you provide me website/store link or just where to purchase from? I’m not huge on ordering from Amazon unless there is no other option, are there alternatives?

Hey! Thanks for listening to Apocrypals, and thanks for looking me up online!

Yes, I wrote for The Tick! I wrote The Tick New Series #1-8, The Tick #100-101, and short stories that appear in various other special issues and reprints.

To answer your question: nope, I do not see any royalties from sales on any Tick books, so feel free to buy however is most convenient to you. I will say that while I do have a story in most later printings of The Complete Edlund, it's only like 8 pages maybe. BUT! You should be buying it for the Edlund material anyway, it's the original and best Tick stuff. My issues has, of yet, not been collected into paperback form and so can only be bought in single issue format. Probably the best way to get them is via online retailers. I usually say the NEC Press website, but it looks like it's not up right now.

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Silence is closer

So, there's this podcast I listen to, about literary analysis, and recently they analysed Melville's "Benito Cereno", and I thought to myself: this story is SO lacanian, with all the ideologically-induced blindness, Babo and Benito falling equally silent after the climax, even the veil hiding the Real that can't be faced is there.

So I started looking for some lacanian interpretations of the text and I found one, not so lacanian after all, entitled "Ships Passing: Encounters with Strangers in Melville's 'Benito Cereno' and Conrad's 'Secret Sharer'" and the moment I read the title I heard in my head the words "silence is closer, we're passing ships in the night" and just like that, I'm now stuck with ...Like Clockwork, which is, after all, not the worst thing that could happen.

Queens of the Stone Age - I Sat By The Ocean (Official Audio) (youtube.com)

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

The Army of Darkness Halloween Special (2018) Dynamite

Scared shipless

Cementary man

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[wcwit]

That line’s right out of the original Atom Eve Special comic

So the person you want to thank for that line is @benito-cereno

​Art by Nate Bellegarde

You guys this is such an epic line and whoever wrote this part needs to know that it's powerful.

Eve was robbed of the chance to have known her family and to be with them. This line perfectly captures that anguish and regret and righteous fury.

[thatstudyblrontea]

April 9, 2023

Nothing like reading in your own garden in early spring 🌻. Under a surprisingly blazing sun, I went on with my reading of Melville's Benito Cereno. My edition has quite the impressive amount of supplementary material, including the diaristic narration that inspired the work. I've been reading this for an Anglo-American Literature course, and it fits the In Translation entry of the Tackle Your Classics reading challenge.

[thearsonistofarland]

Cooking up sinner ocs based on the books my college literature class is reading rn and I’m genuinely having a great time I should make ocs more often

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Song: Sympathy for the Devil

Artist: The Rolling Stones

[radwolf76]

I mentioned one of these traditions in the tags on another post so I figured it was a good time to reblog this.

Sometimes, the crossover just writes itself, even at Christmas

The Catalonia region of Spain has some unique Christmas traditions. One is a Nativity Scene figure called the Caganer, who in contrast to all the other figures who are there to celebrate the birth of Christ, is instead caught literally with their pants down and dropping a load. There are many theories as to what the Caganer is meant to symbolize; one is that its purpose is to ground the scene in reality.

Another Catalan tradition is that of Tió de Nadal, the Christmas Log. This is a hollow log with a face painted on its closed end, that is filled with candy and small gifts over the course of the holiday season. Then on Christmas, the children of the household beat the log with sticks to make the contents spill out, while singing a song to encourage the log to “poop out” its goodies.

A few years back Benito Cereno and Anthony Clark made a comic that united the two traditions, while even looping in jolly ol' Saint Nick to boot.