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reesetee commented on the list moby-dick
Great list idea, yarb!
July 23, 2008
yarb commented on the list moby-dick
Thanks rt. I'm loving the book. Compared to Melville's The Confidence Man, the prose in Moby-Dick is minimalist.
July 24, 2008
chained_bear commented on the list moby-dick
Yarb, I'm totally loving this list! Moby-Dick was on my list to read right after all those Aubrey-Maturin novels, but I didn't get to it. Thanks for doing all the work for me. :) Loving the comments too.
July 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the list moby-dick
*makes note to bump down The Confidence Man on reading list*
C_b, I bet you'll love it when you do get to it. :-)
July 25, 2008
yarb commented on the list moby-dick
Finito, Benito! A haphazard catch, of course - still richly deserving of a trawl by the good ship Chained Bear.
July 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the list moby-dick
Hurrah! Excellent work, yarb. :-)
July 31, 2008
madmouth commented on the list moby-dick
what about spermaceti? I learned it from MD
May 8, 2009
yarb commented on the list moby-dick
I preferred the idiosyncratic parmacetty, madmo.
May 8, 2009
madmouth commented on the list moby-dick
it does have its points (e.g. it sounds like a type of ham).
May 9, 2009
madmouth commented on the list moby-dick
plaguy keeps popping up
June 3, 2009
yarb commented on the list moby-dick
If you hit me with a cite, I'll add it.
June 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the list moby-dick
Peleg talking about the detrimental effects of piety on whaling:
"...There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones."
(ch. 18)
June 3, 2009
yarb commented on the list moby-dick
Ta.
June 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the list moby-dick
sorry to be swamping so (if you'd prefer an appendix list to M-D, just let me know), but I wondered whether you'd find knight-errantism suitable:
Granting that the white whale fully incites the hearts of this savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food for their more common, daily appetites. (p. 177)
June 10, 2009
yarb commented on the list moby-dick
madmouth - I've added you as a contributor, so please contribute to your heart's content. And you can listen to this song while you do so.
June 12, 2009
madmouth commented on the list moby-dick
thank you! I promise I'll be very discriminating.
June 13, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the list moby-dick
*favorited*
I was just thinking about the try-works yesterday.
But where's the poor devil of a Sub-Sub?
December 15, 2010