Dyer, "White Death"

[Samuel Moyer]

>From Dave's original...

"Herman Melville's Moby Dick ..." (212)

Melville's description of the Whiteness of the Whale is so much a part of
our Literary Tradition that an author merely has to describe the whiteness
of something to invoke a sense of what Melville was writing...

Dyer's book is on my reading list now... cheers Dave... s


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From: <AREN5 at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Dyer, "White Death"


> The best description compared whiteness to death is in Melville's "Moby
Dick"
> I think Pynchon might have borrowed a few of the metaphors from there,
> hopefully I can find some good metaphors.
>
> Noah