Nate Wolff#Introduction Hi everyone I'm Nate Wolff, assoc. prof of English at Tufts where I teach 19th century #AmericanLit. I wrote a book about political emotion in the Gilded Age novel. I like the book #MobyDick by #HermanMelville. I also like to #fish. I like to, uh, toot about amateur #dentistry in #literature and Moby-Dick. And #fishing. I especially like to #fish for a #SpecificFish that I #hate. It's a long story!! imho it's so normal to #hate a fish bc they act with #premeditated #malice
Deanna Kreisel@natewolff Welcome to #Middlemarch Mastodon! 😜
@doctorwaffle Is it just me or does "Mastodon" give "Leviathan" vibes, almost as though the platform itself prefers #MobyDick ? 🤔🤔 Like something in the underlying code is obsessed with it?? as the best novel??? Yeah, that's a really cool and helpful way to think about it.
@natewolff MAST-o-don MID-dle-march 🤔 Both dactyls starting with "M".... It's almost like this platform's preference for Middlemarch is encoded at the most basic level of poetic meaning
Kara Shallenberg@natewolff @doctorwaffle having read neither (i know, i know) I am 100% HERE for a knockdown, dragout fight between #MobyDick and #Middlemarch
@Kayray @natewolff You're our perfect audience....
(((Cindy Weinstein)))@natewolff @doctorwaffle. Total MD vibes. I'm thinking the Cetology chapter -- the drive to and impossibility of classification, whatever "instance" one is seeking to understand. Oh, and did I mention how glad you're here, Nate?
BosTechLegal@natewolff @doctorwaffle I’m still trying to figure out if the Kracken is a fish
Welcome to Castle Rackrent@natewolff dentistry?! McTeague!!!
Tobias Wilson-BatesHEY EVERYONE. If you Follow ONE ACCOUNT today. Make it this one ☝️
LizdelaGarzaG@natewolff @cindyweinstein Cindy did you deleted your Twitter account? We can’t find you in Twittershire. I’m glad you are here!
(((Cindy Weinstein)))@lizdelagarzag @natewolff. I did deactivate my twitter account, but/and I'm very happy to here and glad you are, too. 💜
@cindyweinstein @natewolff ok! Jeff it’s coming because of that.
@lizdelagarzag @natewolff. I'm sorry I missed stuff from the #Moby-Dick contingent. Is Jeff coming here, too? That would be awesome.
@cindyweinstein @natewolff yes! He’s coming!
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Diana Spencer@natewolff I cannot stop laughing!!
ez@natewolff But, but, it's a whale, not a fish?! ... I think I just got baited!! ;)
@natewolff btw, giggled at the fish with premeditated malice. 😊 Reminded me of the multiple choice question test when I took my scuba diving license.
The question was: "If fish attacks you, what is probably the cause? I had to hold in laughter in the classroom when I read the option: "they planned it".
Need I say that the test was kinda simple to pass..
MPMcCune2@natewolff Fascinated by the idea dentistry in lit. Never really thought about it🤔. I will pay more attention in future. I also love Moby Dick, though not a fisher myself. Have no animus towards any fish, real or imagined.
Nicole Rizzuto@mpmccune2 @natewolff please don’t get him started on the dentristry yet, his twitter followers, beg of you. There will be more than enough #McTeague posts coming our way soon enough, I assure you. :)
@Nicolemrizzuto1 My apologies to his twitter followers! Did I say I was fascinated? I meant completely uninterested and never wanting to hear more about!
Talia Schaffer@natewolff this is the best Mastodon bio I've read so far.
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Jamie L. Jones (she/her)@natewolff I’ll be here as ever to “favourite” your posts. Thanks for representing #fishhate on here 🐳🔪
Rob Drew@natewolff re hating fish you might appreciate this video my son made just last week which I've been searching desperately for an excuse to recommend to someone https://youtu.be/-5p9BFtLtOk
Top 5 Stupidest Fish That I Hate | Dr. Barp Cassidy, PhD
@slobster48602 this is such an important message — thank you, and thank your son for his courage!
@natewolff rest assured he'll receive a screenshot of your thanks
Nicholas de Wolff@natewolff Welcome, well-named sir! Good to find another bibliophile trying all things...we'll achieve what we can! 😉
Gregg Gonsalves@natewolff Say hello to Lee Edelman if he's still there.
Mph2022@natewolff is moby dick more about animal intelligence than it gets credit for? Trying to read more 19th century American lit and I read deer slayer next. It’s
@natewolff the nut. Premeditated malice. Reciprocity.
Zed_Czar@natewolff Absolutely marvellous hashtaggery. Followed.
Joseph Rezek@natewolff hi Nate!!!!!
@rezekjoe hi joe nice to see you here, listen sorry I'm a little frantic rn trying to generate content on the six social media platforms I am now actively posting on
@natewolff okay cool cool love it keep it up
Alan VeBe 🐒🌈🐳🏳️⚧️@natewolff Aaaah! That bloody fish dammit! 😂💖