The Towering Irrelevance

Herman Melville Likes Your Beard

Or as he calls them, in order, in two chapters of White Jacket:

• beards
• the crop
• suburbs of the chin
• homeward-bounders
• fly-brushes
• long, trailing moss hanging from the bough of some aged oak
• love-curls
• Winnebago locks
• carroty bunches
• rebellious bristles
• redundant mops
• yellow bamboos
• long whiskers
• thrice-noble beards
• plantations of hair
• whiskerandoes
• nodding harvests
• viny locks
• the fleece
• fine tassels
• goatees
• imperials
• sacred things
• admiral’s pennant
• manhood
• muzzle-lashings

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   Or as he calls them, in order, in two chapters of White Jacket: beards the crop suburbs of the chin homeward-bounders...

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    Herman Melville, on beards, chronologically through

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    suburbs of the chin

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    Which led me to start a little series: Thanks to Secret Agent Martens for the heads up.

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