stackyFACTSYou can pour your absolute soul into a towering masterwork about human obsession, and the public will still yawn.
You can pour your absolute soul into a towering masterwork about human obsession, and the public will still yawn. When 'Moby-Dick' was published in 1851, critics tore it apart, calling it confusing and erratic. It sold fewer than 3,200 copies during Melville's entire life. He completely gave up on writing novels and ended up working as a miserable customs inspector in New York, completely unaware that a century later students would be tortured by his whale facts.
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