Ahab & Merleau-Ponty....Graves....

[Scott Badger]

Rob:
> The passage you've cited - and it seems to be R.C.'s narration rather than
> Dixon's, by the way, and it's certainly not Wicks's

Did you mean to say Emerson (instead of Dixon)? If so, I wasn't suggesting
that it was Emerson's narrative (or Dixon's, for that matter), just that if
Emerson's plan 'work'd to Perfection', than he, also, chose to hide the
watch from the World.

Until I typed the passage, I thought all of it was a direct quote of R.C.'s.
I agree that after, '"What were my choices?"', it follows that R.C. would
list them, but as he isn't quoted again until '"I had less than one of the
Creature's Ticks to decide.[...]"', I'm not really sure who to attribute the
narration to.

> But R.C. is "too insane for ev'ryone else's good"
> (322.25), so I
> don't think he's an altogether reliable authority on the subject.
>

R.C. may be insane, but who isn't??

Scott Badger