NP Hiter, Mussolini, Hearst

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> "Some commentators speculate that Melville's
>   dislike of Redburn was owing to his
>   subsequent realization that he had exposed
>   his own homoerotic longings. Whatever his
>   unconscious or privately acknowledged feelings
>   may have been, Melville was innocent of the
>   instinct for self-protection on the page. "

Not true, don't forget the man couldn't sell his work
because he was being too open and honest and not protecting
himself enough, ahgh, BS, the guy was hunted down to silence 
(and now he's being picked over by the vulture crowd
fighting over his sexuality for money--makes Pynchon Inc.
look like a corner deli to McDonalds) 

and died in obscurity, they can print this John Leonard
essay (I bet John hasn't read Melville since college) but
they couldn't even spell his name when he went sadly away,
ahgh, it's too bad, perhaps Wood is right, it's broken.