Slog - Comments on The White Wail http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail First, 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.)... Copyright 2008 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:04:18 -0800 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:38:33 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by him "you", as in Time's Person of the Year?

]]> him http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645036 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645036 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:12:20 -0800 Comment by james27 Well... It's just so frusterating nobody waers hats anymore!

]]> james27 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645078 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645078 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:50:11 -0800 Comment by james27 It's just so frustrating! Nobody wears hats anymore.

]]> james27 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645103 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645103 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:04:29 -0800 Comment by josh 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?

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645107 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645107 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:07:49 -0800 Comment by christopher frizzelle My friend Josh: There's always New In Books if the only books you want to read about are the new ones.

]]> christopher frizzelle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645123 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:28:30 -0800 Comment by josh I was actually more curious about the unfinished than the old.

Not that I necessarily recommend reading all of Moby Dick.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645156 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645156 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:39:39 -0800 Comment by robotslave 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?

]]> robotslave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/the_white_wail#c645227 Arts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:38:33 -0800