Slog - Comments on The Heart of the Matter http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter McSweeney's has a post up called "Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less." I'm really fond of how the one for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe manages to fit some literary criticism into its three lines, and also the last line of the 1984 retelling is gold, but, for Christopher's sake, this is the one that bats it out of the park: Moby-Dick ISHMAEL: I'm existential. AHAB: Really? Try vengeance. ISHMAEL: I dig this dynamic. Can we drag it out for 600 pages?... Copyright 2008 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:18:53 -0800 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:19:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Hmm, this is almost as good as the film Captain Ahab.

As in ... not.

Want a good choice, go watch Captain Abu Read, a far better Captain and a far more fun experience.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059137 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059137 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:23:52 -0800 Comment by Willogical Fallacy WAY TO MISS THE FUCKING POINT #1

]]> Willogical Fallacy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059164 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059164 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:43:10 -0800 Comment by Rufio (From Hook) Will will never learn to fly.

]]> Rufio (From Hook) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059170 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059170 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:48:50 -0800 Comment by Kyleen I was really having a jolly good time reading this post, until I read the first comment. #1, you took the fun out of this, and made puppies cry!

]]> Kyleen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059192 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059192 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:14:05 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Alas, the puppies, shorn of fur, bereft of succor, lost to myrrh, did wane as passing days incurred.

A book not made into movie yet, can often be your fondest pet, but billboardless and lacking ads, can never reach the scholars' nads.

Seek not the holy grail of lit, but ask yourself, where comes this tit? This bird of bounce which sits on branch, is oft mistaken by those obsessed with ants.

...

now sod off.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059204 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:20:39 -0800 Comment by Nay My only complaint is that there aren't enough, I want more summations! :D

]]> Nay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059272 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:04:22 -0800 Comment by Vince And your breath smells like fish.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059373 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059373 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:03:30 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Sushi is the breath of life, I seek it as I leave my wife, Leviathan I cry to thee, and waste my life upon the sea.

Hark, what beast dost glimmer white, tis Moby Dick, give me a knife! Harpoon instead I take in stride, this peg for leg shall find me hale.

And now adrift my sailors few, for killing the beast, did make them stew.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059419 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:28:57 -0800 Comment by Dougsf #6 - agree. Those were great, especially 1984.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059525 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:11:24 -0800 Comment by Julie Totally agree that there need to be more. "Oh, rats!"

Hee hee.

]]> Julie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059584 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_heart_of_the_matter#c1059584 Books Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:19:20 -0800