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    Today, 03:16 PM
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    There's another Shakespeare parallel that I had forgotten about from The Tempest. In Act II the ship wrecked Trinculo says, "Misery acquaints a man...
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    Yesterday, 10:41 PM
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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...
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    Yesterday, 12:44 AM
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    Over the years many commentators have speculated as to whether Melville was a homosexual. Among these writers were Hart Crane, WH Auden, EM Forster,...
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    12-08-2023, 12:19 PM
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    @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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    12-08-2023, 01:03 AM
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    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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    12-07-2023, 05:44 PM
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    ~ Fedallah ~ quoting Sancho, "a follower of Islam probably gravitated towards Fedallah" "Spiritual" adviser to Ahab which may be hard to...
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    12-07-2023, 05:21 PM
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    "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....
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    12-07-2023, 10:49 AM
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    The real life inspiration for Moby Dick: ...
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    12-07-2023, 10:32 AM
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    Starbuck ~ first mate. Second in command. Big character foil to Captain Ahab. Pragmatist. Ishmael tells us he is a Quaker and native of Nantucket....
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    12-06-2023, 03:20 PM
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    Starbucks? According to Boston Dad that is sacrilege if you're from Boston. According to him, you MUST go to Dunky Dunks:
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    12-06-2023, 02:13 PM
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    Interesting chapter. Ahab and his officers settle down to dinner - they are described in royal terms with words such as sultan, Emir, Grand Turk, as...
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    12-05-2023, 09:46 PM
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    Cricket? The one novel I've read about it is, https://www.amazon.com/Cricket-Match-Hugh-Selincourt/dp/1443734934 Very good book. ...
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    12-05-2023, 06:14 PM
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    This was probably the most criticized portion of the book. Often dismissed as a seemingly meaningless digression or pedantic departure from the...
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    12-05-2023, 10:56 AM
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    Gosh! You brought back some memories for me as we had a great touring homage in NYC to "Crystal Ship" going way back to the late 1970s. I tried to...
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    12-05-2023, 02:41 AM
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    One of the most underrated songs in the Rock & Roll era: I sailed an ocean, unsettled ocean Through restful waters and deep commotion
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    12-05-2023, 02:28 AM
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    I believe the name "town ho" implies "homeward bound". In living up to its name, its crew is spared the unhappy fate suffered by the men of the...
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    12-05-2023, 01:34 AM
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    Couldn't find the 1930 talkie but did find the Sea Beast (silent, 1926) which was based on MD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7-f7U3Co74
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    12-05-2023, 01:21 AM
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    Nothing quite compares with this gem: But somehow, I've got to watch the Barrymore version from 1930. He was considered by many the...
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    12-04-2023, 02:03 AM
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    Forgot to add one thing: that, indeed, the few Pequots who survived did so through integration with other tribes or with the general white...
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    12-04-2023, 01:45 AM
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    Thanks for those endorsement above. Indeed, re-reading portions of this striking book has been fun for me as well. :hurray: The Pequod ~ what...
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    12-03-2023, 12:39 PM
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    You get a major thumbs up for that one!
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    12-03-2023, 12:32 AM
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    Oh, I forgot that in Ch 59 ~ Squid --- a gigantic white squid (furlongs in length and breath) called a "white ghost" and a "monster" appears. Again,...
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    12-03-2023, 12:19 AM
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    White - the color which usually represents beauty, innocence, purity, goodness, and virtue. However, in MD the color is used to denote death, evil,...
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    12-02-2023, 11:05 PM
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    Major Kong rides the bomb in Dr Strangelove:
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    12-01-2023, 06:37 PM
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    Great excerpts. I had forgotten this episode in that classic book. We see Ahab's soliloquy in which he appears to challenge Nature or Nature's God...
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    11-30-2023, 12:41 PM
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    True. Boxing goes waaaaay back to the times of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. I remember reading of Epeios in Homer's Iliad. He was so tough,...
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    11-29-2023, 02:07 PM
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    Thanks for sharing that link. I believe that I read it in Junior High School some time around 1966 or thereabouts. The one line I remembered was, ...
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    11-29-2023, 12:48 PM
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    OFF TOPIC Can't resist talking about pro boxing. For many years it was my absolute passion in life just as it was to my dad who was a former...
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    11-28-2023, 10:43 PM
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    I believe there's a tale about an Ancient Mariner who unwisely killed an albatross to his peril and to that of his mates. Been a long while since I...
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    11-28-2023, 10:35 PM
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    The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape...
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    Sadly, Hitler's stated view was hardly unique. History shows that others felt the same way.

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