Nate Wolff
@proffwolff
Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳
Happy pub day to @SandTClassics edition of Poe’s NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM — featuring an afterword by me & @RezekJoe! And pls join us at Harvard Bookstore on Monday where we will continue the conversation and I will reveal the next iteration of my thematic hairdo.
One month from today! On 7/28 come celebrate the gorgeous new Smith & Taylor Classics edition of Poe's PYM by hearing me and @RezekJoe talk about Poe's PYM! And why not buy a copy since it includes a lively conversational afterword wherein me and @RezekJoe talk about Poe's PYM!
everyone's talking about the dashing Bowdoin grad with great hair who got interested in socialism and later gained a position in local government
No. Please do not appropriate classic American literature for your real estate listing!!! (Unless you’re quoting House of the Seven Gables bc your property has a tortured roof line / is haunted by the crimes of your most repulsive ancestor.)
I was reading this book that says that the whiteness of the whale becomes like a blank canvas on which man projects his own desires
I thought God’s agreement with Maine was that our waters are painfully cold but free of anything with this much tentacle.
Top 5 best feelings as a man 1) squeezing colaborer’s hand in a vat of spermaceti 2) the physical touch of a cannibal 3) someone yelling “thar she blows” 4) when a team’s various wheels fit its captain’s one cogged circle 5) first quaff from a harpoon socket What am I missing?
Top 5 best feelings as a man 1) the razor on the back of the neck during a haircut 2) the physical touch of a woman 3) someone yelling “he’s a shooter” when playing pickup hoops 4) your team winning a title 5) first drink after a long day/week What am I missing?
F everything and come see me Nate talk about Pym in July! Harvard bookstore. Embrace your inner Penguin! (Link below)
"The Last Algorithm" as a ChatGPT summer read hallucination is incredible. Real ''the tiny LLMs we know to be small' vibes.
Apparently newspapers are running ChatGPT book recommendation articles filled with fake AI hallucinated books. The future is very stupid. Via threads.com/@tbretc/post/D…
Always kind of funny that some people’s reaction to seeing a bedraggled middle aged man wearing 80lbs of purple felt is “congratulations”
Melville scholar here. Show some respect. Some men never get to pose with their fish 😞
Replies telling him it’s because he’s not jacked but that has nothing to do with it. You need platonic female relationships. You’ll learn what women actually want. You can ask them advice on how to present yourself and they wouldn’t let you post pics like this
In my research I have discovered that a shocking number of whale ship disasters can be traced back to communication issues between captain and first mate.
Rip Van Winkle ass job (complimentary)
Incredible job opportunity for a sleepy lil' guy
I got the titles mixed up for a sec and thought this was huge news for Sally Rooney fans.
This is the ideal medium for human thought. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
There is a cure to the male loneliness epidemic, but it comes at great personal risk [picture of a doomed whaling vessel]
There is a cure to the male loneliness epidemic, but it comes at great personal risk