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Congratulations for finishing the book, Sancho! You are a very quick reader! I fully agree to your analysis of the Gaza conflict and how it compares...

@Poppin I wasn't aware that Captain Ahab was so Shakespearian, but in his madness and desperate determination he is a very dramatic character...

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Concerning current affairs, I was thinking sort of the same thing, Danik. I couldn’t help but to compare the whaling industry to the war in Gaza....

@Danik Very glad to see you are enjoying the exchange here. Your post inspired to check into the equation between Hamlet and Starbuck. I came...

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I simply love how ample this interchange is getting Sancho and poppin. One theme that called my attention and that seems so very current, is this mad...

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"Sow... ". Impressive poem! According to the analysis it seems that the text above is part of a bigger poem where the poet links the image of the...

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Delightful poem ! Enjoyed very much :) A bit under the weather at this time but will endeavor to try... Challenge accepted ! Ta ! (short for...

Interesting short poem by the author of Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. Thinking it's about the flashing sun before sunset. "God knows how our...

quoting Sancho, ~ “Well, I’m a merchant marine. I liked the sailor stuff.” ~ My dad was a merchant marine for 20 years. He had so many...

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Haha. I get it. In fact after my trip to the watery part of the world, I’m gonna need to read a McManus book too.

Again, talk about serendipity. I just read the scene where Starbuck contemplates murder/mutiny. And I agree, it has a Shakesphere feel about it —...

Oy vey. Wrong religion. Ah well, my main point was that art means different things to different people. I don’t think you can say definitively it...

~ Fedallah ~ quoting Sancho, "a follower of Islam probably gravitated towards Fedallah" "Spiritual" adviser to Ahab which may be hard to...

you might enjoy hearing that I temporarily gave up on them all and went instead with a Patrick McManus book!

"To be or not to be" cf. ""Would I be a murderer" Hamlet and Starbuck are two characters who suffered a similar fate. Both had been wronged....

All good stuff above, guys! Thanks bounty, Danik, hellsapoppin! So we've got Starbuck and Mocha Dick. When are we going to come across somebody named...

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Lol! Quite true, bounty! mine worker

The real life inspiration for Moby Dick: ...

mine shaft which is maybe how you get to the gold mine to find the gold nugget in order to fashion the gold medal and the gold ring!