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Those who have read the Wallace book know that this subject was very important to Melville. In the opening Ish asks "who ain't a slave?" The...

no Champs-Élysées this coming season. the race organizers moved the finish to nice because of the olympics. cant remember if I mentioned before,...

you might enjoy the story danik: ...

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Haha. CaddyShack has some hang-time, eh? BTW, I'm a fan of Pro Cycling, about like a guy who's a baseball fan but only watches game 7 of the WS. I...

Who knows? I’m sure it’s a possibility. A lot if the homoerotic stuff in the book could be read that way. And it's easy for a reader to think Ishmael...

im watching the jets/Texans game and its been pouring down rain the whole first half so far. the announcer, kevin Harlan goes "I don't think the...

Some mix up, thanks for your correction, tailor. Awaiting your new poem, when you are feeling better.

re: Hope it is nothing too momentous. Praying for you getting well quickly! Follow doctor´s instructions and take good care of yourself! re:...

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Fell in Love With a Girl - The White Stripes

Delightful poem! Perhaps "improbable" in place of "improvable" if I scan correctly. "in their conversation / there wasn´t room for silence." :) ...

Over the years many commentators have speculated as to whether Melville was a homosexual. Among these writers were Hart Crane, WH Auden, EM Forster,...

Aside from being ill all is well... thank you for asking. Wonderful poem. N.S.W., Australia nostalgia. "Come like ghosts, and sit beside me when...

l.o.c. - yes edited version

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Lol! Poor Mrs. Sancho! Good point about the language as descriptive of the main characters. One thing I forgot about Moby is also how much humor...

It's no, anyway, bounty. Does lump of coal mean no Christmas present? book version

why not you too danik? cover version sometimes better than the original!

you can never watch a tour that goes up mt ventoux, or that talks about doping, without tom simpson's dying on the ascent being mentioned. I hadn't...

I guess I was unaware of the Tom Simpson story. The youtube has piqued my interest, though. I really only follow professional cycling occasionally....

Bah, I just happened to have some dead time sitting on an airplane. Once I sort of tuned into Ishmael’s language it actually went fairly quickly. The...

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Cute poem (a bit melancholy)! Challenge accepted! Next: sphere, kettle, silence, snail, tear, dove The Dove and the Snail The dove and...

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