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" Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for the flames? "
Great Short Works of Herman Melville - Seite 73
von Herman Melville - 2004 - 512 Seiten
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Herman Melville

John Freeman - 1926 - 232 Seiten
...life is displayed ; he had been employed in the Dead Letter Office and suddenly lost his position. " Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a...these dead letters, and assorting them for. the flames ? " Ironic postscript tn " Pathos is absent from the greatest of these stories, " Benito Cereno ",...
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Herman Melville

John Freeman - 1926 - 228 Seiten
...displayed ; he had been employed in the Dead Letter Office and suddenly lost his position. " Conceive a^man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness;...continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them^for-the flames ? " Ironic postscript to Pathos is absent from the greatest of these stories, "...
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Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories

Herman Melville - 2006 - 322 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...takes a ring — the finger it was meant for, perhaps, molders in the grave; a bank note sent in swiftest charity — he whom it would relieve nor eats nor...
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

Herman Melville - 1986 - 420 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring-the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity...
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Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to ...

Arnold Weinstein - 1993 - 362 Seiten
...grapheme est d'essence testamentaire," and goes on to interpret the famous scene of undelivered letters, "Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk...takes a ring— the finger it was meant for, perhaps, molders in the grave," as a textbook illustration of differance itself: "La lettre, par 1'effet de...
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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

Tom Cohen - 1994 - 292 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness . . . Sometimes from out the folded paper a pale clerk takes a ring — the finger it was meant for,...
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American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque

Dieter Meindl - 1996 - 262 Seiten
...second option, the epilogue is the narrator's "last sentimental gesture." 18 But is it? Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring:—the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the gtave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity:—he...
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Law and Literature: Text and Theory

Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 522 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumor, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead leners! doer it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelersness, can any business seem more fined to heighten it than that of continually handling there...
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Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville: Introduction by John Updike

Herman Melville - 1997 - 522 Seiten
...over this rumor, hatdly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound hke dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a palhd hopelessness, can any busmess seem more fitted to heighten it than that of contmnally handlmg...
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E-mail Trouble: Love and Addiction @ the Matrix

S. Paige Baty - 1999 - 176 Seiten
...administration. When I think over this rumour, hardly can I express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! Does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by...Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring—the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a banknote sent in swiftest charity—he...
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