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Melville's 'Pierre.' (Herman Melville)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19930622
Author:Cervo, Nathan

Herman Melville explores the measurement of time in 'Pierre.' Plotinus Plinlimmon's 'Chronometricals and Horologicals' examines the relation of time to human activity. Plinlimmon replaces the Roman philosopher Plotinus' theory of 'Ouranos,' 'Chronos' and Zeus with his own theory of duality expressed in the parallel between 'Hora' and 'Chronos.'

In book 14 of Melville's Pierre, Plotinus Plinlimmon's "Chronometricals and Horologicals" appears. It is intended by its author to be the first of 333 lectures making up a book called EI (Greek, "if"; significantly, the lecture-pamphlet, as ...

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