Arts The White Wail
posted by February 22 at 14:04 PM
onFirst, read this piece, by Christopher Frizzelle, about the first fifth of Moby Dick, drunk people on airplanes, and whether or not Melville was a time-travelling (or at least preternaturally prescient) man.
Then read the comments on this post, which start out bitchy (“get a life - post something less trivial”) and then get interesting (“ok. if frizzelle’s ahab and the sign is a modern god of finance and commerce, then who’s ishmael?”).
(I vote that Ishmael is you.)
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"you", as in Time's Person of the Year?
Well... It's just so frusterating nobody waers hats anymore!
It's just so frustrating! Nobody wears hats anymore.
Although it was a nice story, wasn't a little odd to run a book review about the twenty percent of a 156-year-old novel?
My friend Josh: There's always New In Books if the only books you want to read about are the new ones.
I was actually more curious about the unfinished than the old.
Not that I necessarily recommend reading all of Moby Dick.
Brendan, given that you're now narrating the events, you gets the prize.
Still need a Queequeg, though. D'you suppose Mudede would be offended if we asked him to play the part?
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