The next group read?

[Jasper Fidget]

You flirt with casus belli signore!  Do you believe your Roman Legion a
match for our Minute-Men?  I insist you retract this defamation at once!

And, just for the record, Queequeg fucks *everyone*.  Except for Ahab, who
keeps mainly to himself...

"The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel
Enderby of London, had not been unattended with some small violence to his
own person. He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that
his ivory leg had received a half-splintering shock. And when after gaining
his own deck, and his own pivot-hole there, he so vehemently wheeled round
with an urgent command to the steersman (it was, as ever, something about
his not steering inflexibly enough); then, the already shaken ivory received
such an additional twist and wrench, that though it still remained entire,
and to all appearances lusty, yet Ahab did not deem it entirely
trustworthy." (MD ch. 106)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of umberto rossi
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:39 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: The next group read?
> 
> 
> In data 13 Jul 2004, verso le 12:01, Jasper Fidget si trovò a
> scrivere su RE: The next group read?:
> 
> > Moby Dick
> 
> Come on... do you really like that unashamed imitation of Gravity's
> Rainbow? Ahab is obviously a simplified version of Blicero, Ishmael
> is a poor man's Tyrone, and the attempt to put the whole Zone on an
> US whaler is simply pathetic. While I'll admit that transforming the
> Rocket into the Whale might be an interesting attempt, weren't this
> Melville guy so ignorant about the most recent developments of
> biology... even Cuvier and Lynneus are too advanced for him. He
> totally ignores Darwin, who's he, some freak fundamentalist?
> 
> The best thing is the gay subplot, though I can't understand who's
> fucking who on the Pequod... at least those two hard-core novelettes
> he wrote were more graphic, I mean, it's obvious that Jemmy Legs
> would like to screw Billy Budd, and that Benny Cereno was in love
> with Al Aranda.
> 
> All in all, I'd like to read something P-related or even P-derived,
> but this bestselling imitation of GR is a bit too lowbrow to me.
> 
> umberto rossi
> ___________________
> 
> 		"A mulatto
> 		An albino
> 		A mosquito
> 		My libido"
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