Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick flickr photo by Nesster shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

The Moby Dick At Sea bot (by Mark Sample) on Mastodon gathers up random lines from Herman Melville’s classic novel – Moby Dick (Or The Whale) – and sends those Melvillian words out into the world.

Such as:

Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.- via Moby Dick At Sea

Today, gather one of the posts from the bot and use it to inspire an illustration or piece of art, a poem, an analysis, a collage, a whatever-you-feel-like-making-because-it’s-the-daily-create and share.

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