EPISODE · Jun 28, 2026 · 27 MIN
The Confidence-Man Chapters 23 and 24
from The Herman Melville Library · host Herman Melville
In which the Missourian, marooned amidst the squalid environs of Cairo, finds his cynicism stirred and softened by the subtle influence of natural landscape, setting him to ruminate on the fragility of human wisdom and suspicion. In which a flamboyant cosmopolitan, with the easy manner of one well-travelled and amiably persuasive, endeavors to draw out a solitary, misanthropic bachelor from his gloom and distrust, proposing in hope that fellowship might yet thaw the cold reserve of one who shuns humanity’s cheerful convivialities.
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In which the Missourian, marooned amidst the squalid environs of Cairo, finds his cynicism stirred and softened by the subtle influence of natural landscape, setting him to ruminate on the fragility of human wisdom and suspicion. In which a flamboyant cosmopolitan, with the easy manner of one well-travelled and amiably persuasive, endeavors to draw out a solitary, misanthropic bachelor from his gloom and distrust, proposing in hope that fellowship might yet thaw the cold reserve of one who shuns humanity’s cheerful convivialities.
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The Confidence-Man Chapters 23 and 24
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