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Billy Budd
by Herman Melville | Literature & Fiction
Registered by wingcrimson-tidewing of Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Journal Entry 1 by wingcrimson-tidewing from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, September 23, 2010

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`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. The passion it has aroused in its readers over the years is a measure of how deeply it addresses some of the fundamental questions of experience that every age must reexamine for itself.


Registered and reserved for week #38 of the 2010 "Never Judge a Book by its Cover" Release Challenge.


 

Journal Entry 2 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Garden City Shopping Centre in Booragoon, Western Australia Australia on Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Released 1 yr ago (9/24/2010 UTC) at Garden City Shopping Centre in Booragoon, Western Australia Australia

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Released for week #38 of the 2010 "Never Judge a Book by its Cover" Release Challenge.
 



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