Milton Marathon (was Moby-Dick Marathon [was MDDM Ch. 10 The Bull's Eye])

[Tim Strzechowski]

Speaking of marathons, I will be conducting our 3rd Annual Milton Marathon
on Saturday, Dec. 15th at Argo Community High School.  Participants take
turns reading _Paradise Lost_ until we've finished the poem (all 10,565
lines)!  Apples are served.  Anyone who's in the Chicagoland area at that
time, feel free to stop in.

Tim S.
http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/apeng/APEnglish.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wright AIA" <mwaia at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: Moby-Dick Marathon (was MDDM Ch. 10 The Bull's Eye)


> Howdy
> The New Bedford event will be in an auditorium. The Mystic event is
> under the mild spangled dome of the created firmament which lofts above
> the creaking spars and convex drumhead deck of the whale ship, smelling
> what might pass for the sea. Maybe if we show up early we can grab a
> place on a coil of Manilla line...
> BYOB.
> Mark
>
> --- Jasper Fidget <fakename at tokyo.com> wrote:
> > This sounds like great fun.  I attended a marathon once for Ulysses,
> > but
> > there was lots of falling asleep (largely due to wine being passed
> > around),
> > and tried once for Lord of the Rings (but it lasted like three days
> > and I
> > was all out of amphetamines).  I just searched on "Moby-Dick
> > Marathon" and
> > found another one (different group?) taking place in New Bedford MA:
> >
> > http://www.newenglandtravel.com/features/mobydick.shtml
> > Melville's home port of New Bedford celebrates the 150th anniversary
> > of
> > Moby-Dick.
> > Herman Melville called the Massachusetts port of New Bedford "perhaps
> > the
> > dearest place to live in, in all New England . . . Nowhere in all
> > America,"
> > he wrote in Moby-Dick, "will you find more patrician-like houses;
> > parks and
> > gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford. Whence came they? . . .
> > One and
> > all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the bottom of the
> > sea."
> >
> > This year, with concerts, cruises and special exhibits, New Bedford -
> > where
> > the Melville classic began - is celebrating the 150th anniversary of
> > the
> > publication of Moby-Dick: or The White Whale.
> >
> > In January 1841, when 21-year-old Melville sailed down the Acushnet
> > River on
> > the voyage that would result in his masterpiece, New Bedford was the
> > wealthiest city per capita in America. Times, of course, have changed
> > since
> > then. But fishing continues to be an important part of New Bedford's
> > economy, with some 90 boats in its scalloping fleet helping to make
> > it the
> > scalloping capital of the country today.
> >
> > New Bedford's 13-block waterfront district, which was designated a
> > National
> > Historical Park in 1996, has been welcoming visitors to its
> > cobblestoned
> > streets all summerlong. Melville scholars, one-man Melville
> > interpretations,
> > and Moby-Dick-inspired music and dance are among the many highlights.
> > Melville events will continue until just after New Year's, when his
> > devotees
> > will assemble at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Johnny Cake Hill
> > for a
> > 25-hour marathon reading of the tale of the vengeful captain and the
> > great
> > white whale.
> >
> > "And it's always an extraordinary experience," says Lee Heald,
> > director of
> > programs at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. "You see the sun set and
> > you see
> > the sun rise as you listen to the reading. You walk across the street
> > to the
> > Seamen's Bethel in the cold night air to hear the sermon about Jonah
> > and the
> > Whale that Melville's Ishmael heard."
> >
> > In 10-minute segments, 168 men and women read the classic to a crowd
> > of
> > about 300. During the night, of course, some listeners nod off and
> > others
> > head home, but ordinarily, when morning comes, the die-hards who
> > remain are
> > revived with coffee and Portuguese fried bread-malasadas-and
> > presented with
> > a special edition of Moby-Dick.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Wright AIA" <mwaia at yahoo.com>
> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 1:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: MDDM Ch. 10 The Bull's Eye
> >
> >
> > > Howdy
> > >
> > > I can't remember what these things are called either. But one day
> > all
> > > of you will make the pigrimage to "Mystic Seaport" in Connecticut
> > to
> > > participate in the annual 24 Hour Moby-Dick Marathon on the decks
> > of a
> > > whaling almost as shaggy and toothsome as the Pequod... There you
> > will
> > > see these things in place in the decks. They work surprisingly
> > well.
> > > Reproductions are in the gift shop, at an absurd price, for
> > > paperweights.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I can meet some of you there next summer. I've wanted to
> > "lose
> > > the kids" and go back for the reading for several years now. It
> > should
> > > be a good time.
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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