Many of these paintings are in the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, PA; The museum is worth a trip from anywhere. IMHO.
Posted on 07/31/2019 11:03:05 AM PDT by Borges
The book features gay marriage, hits out at slavery and imperialism and predicts the climate crisis – 200 years after the birth of its author, Herman Melville, it has never been more important
Thursday marks the 200th birthday of Herman Melville – the author of the greatest unread novel in the English language. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen eyes glaze over when I ask people if they have conquered Moby-Dick. It is the Mount Everest of literature: huge and apparently insurmountable, its snowy peak as elusive as the tail of the great white whale himself.
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This idiot is just projecting his own ideas on to the book.
In my opinion, Moby Dick is one of those thick, heavy tomes that one can benefit from without having read it cover to cover. There are lessons of morality to be learned, lessons of power struggles. There is a cautionary tale of allowing one’s ambitions to overtake your sense of survival, or perception of sanity.
As you may conclude from my premise, no, I did not read the entire novel. Moby Dick was grouped with other notoriously long pieces of literature during my school years. Other works such as War & Peace, and the poem Hiawatha.
Most likely. Great novel. Great movie.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Moby-Dick may be the first work of western fiction to feature a same-sex marriage: Ishmael, the loner narrator (famous for the most ambiguous opening line in literature) gets hitched – in bed – to the omni-tattooed Pacific islander, Queequeg: “He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.” Other scenes are deeply homoerotic: sailors massage each others’ hands in a tub of sperm oil and there is an entire chapter devoted to foreskins (albeit of the whalish variety)....
This author actually considers the chapter on whale foreskins to be homoerotic.
“...and I am only escaped alone to tell thee.”
Despite its “War & Peace” isn’t really difficult to read.
Every thing is political with these people today.
I have read it several times over the years.
Many of these paintings are in the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, PA; The museum is worth a trip from anywhere. IMHO.
“Despite its length”
Took me three times to get past the first chapter, but after I finally did, I was hooked.
Never realized anything “homo” about the book; just saw it as a great work of fiction, as well as an amazing story about mankind’s struggle to survive.
As you may conclude from my premise, no, I did not read the entire novel. Moby Dick was grouped with other notoriously long pieces of literature during my school years. Other works such as War & Peace, and the poem Hiawatha.
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I was exposed to the Hiawatha poem through the Disney animated cartoon. ;-)
Well, Melville let the queers name the damned whale.
“Moby Dick”?
Why tead that rot when I can read Newman’s edifying tome “Heather has two Mommies” ?
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“I did not read the entire novel.”
We had no choice. I thought I’d hate it, but I liked it a lot. I’d like to go back and re-read some of the books we had to read, this time just for fun.
When we read “The Scarlet Letter”, I didn’t know about... well... sex. I liked the book, but obviously didn’t totally get it.
This “novel” was a series of articles cobbled together. Melville was paid by the word. This is why it is so thesaurus dependent.
Melville himself called Moby Dick a “wicked book”.
Fantastic illustrations. I think Wyeth also did work for Gullivers Travels. About that giant.
Either Philip never read the book or was totally flummoxed by old English.
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