.Liberal suffering from BDS"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale".
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Posted on 07/08/2008 4:22:18 AM PDT by Apollo 13
Just re-read billy bud. It is a book that does not translate well over time with terms like ‘manly beauty’. Still a book about an honorable man, and that should be enough to keep it going through the years.
Jack Londons’ The Sea Wolf should be considered next.
One of my favorites.
I always got a chuckle over Stubb I think, ordering his whale steak rare, where he tells someone to hold the steak in one hand and a flame in the other, and that is all the cooking he wants done to it.
Cheers for that! I know the title but never knew that it would fit into my categories. I’ll provide myself ASAP with a copy (i.e. today).
If you think those names sound homosexual to you, I would suggest you get out more, and stop reading so much.
I read that book at 12 and again at 27 after I had worked a couple of years on snapper boats in the Gulf, one of them under sail, and yet again at 55. It was three different books.
Perfectly put. May I quote you (with the original source, of course?)
Any Lit professor would be proud to voice it this way to his students, I am sure.
The nice thing about Melville was he used paragraphs. :-)
Another thing, when you read Moby Dick the second time, Ahab and the whale become good friends!
One of the best lines ever-If my chest were a cannon I would shoot my heart at him (paraphrasing). Powerful stuff.
Hmmm... you think I might encounter masculine heteros in bars who go by the names of Queequeg, Daggoo, Tashtegoo?
On second thought, it might be.
Probably not this day and age, but back then, who knows?
Oh yeah mon -
I once met a guy named Daggoo. Hairy chest and big bulge in his trousers. He courted a blonde and talked her into the sack within minutes. Perhaps you are right after all....:)
If you get to hang out in mid-19th cent whaling bars with foreign and native American harpooners, then I you’re a lucky guy.
Allow me:
ROTFLOL LMAO :) :) :) ...and the whole of Holland is shaking on its foundations with laughter!
.Liberal suffering from BDS"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale".
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Great images man! Cheers for that. I must rent or buy the movie sometime soon.
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