The Swallowed Man - Edward Carey

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“I am writing this account, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten, yet I am living still.” Scribbling his diary in the overwhelming gloom of the cavernous fish belly, old Geppetto reflects on the strange life of the puppet his "sacred magic" carved out of wood, whom he grew to love with a slow-burning intensity.

The Swallowed Man (2020) is the story of how Pinocchio's father spent two years inside the enormous sea creature that swallowed him, of the journal he wrote there, the art he made…and the strange presence that lives beside him in the gloom.

Wisdom and Woe is a philosophy and literature discussion group dedicated to exploring the world, work, life, and times of Herman Melville and the 19th century Romantic movement. The group is free and open to anybody with an interest in learning and growing by "diving deeper" into "time and eternity, things of this world and of the next, and books, and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters."