![]() Melville gets only brief mention in Frank’s book, but it’s hard not to see Moby Dick as the spiritual ancestor of Preparing the Ghost, despite their different genres and styles ( Preparing the Ghost is a work of nonfiction). Also, there’s lots of ice cream in this book, and spiders-but more on that later. Weaving together historical narrative, journalism, and lyric essay, the book is a 250-page meditation on the giant squid, a creature that is both biologically real and yet in many ways still mythological. That line, from the opening pages of Moby Dick, would make an appropriate epigraph for Matthew Gavin Frank’s Preparing the Ghost. “Meditation and water are wedded for ever.” ![]() Preparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin Frank, W.W. ![]() White Whales, Giant Squids, and Other Obsessions ![]()
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