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  • Most seamen are good at news-telling, from being so often first with it.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • Structurally, the work creates a triptych of progressive abstraction: the first section parodying news-telling conventions, the second offering metaphorical representation of news consumption, and the third a visceral and sometimes unsettling choreographic expression of information deluge and sensory overload.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Structurally, the work creates a triptych of progressive abstraction: the first section parodying news-telling conventions, the second offering metaphorical representation of news consumption, and the third a visceral and sometimes unsettling choreographic expression of information deluge and sensory overload.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • We introduced some objectivity to our news-telling.

    American Chronicle 2009

  • For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby Dick.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby Dick.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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