Why Read Moby Dick?

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From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:13:56 
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Subject: Why Read Moby Dick?

"More capacious than ponderous, “Moby-Dick” has the wild and
unpredictable energy of the great white whale itself, more than enough
to heave its significance out of what Melville called “the universal
cannibalism of the sea” and into the light. Melville challenged the
form of the novel decades before James Joyce and a century before
Thomas Pynchon or David Foster Wallace. Calling for tools befitting
the ambition of his task — 'Give me a condor’s quill! Give me
Vesuvius’s crater for an ink stand!' — Melville substituted dialogue
and stage direction for a chapter’s worth of prose. He halted the
action to include a parody of the scientific classification of whales,
a treatise on the whale as represented in art, a meditation on the
complexity of rope, whatever snagged his attention."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/why-read-moby-dick-by-nathaniel-philbrick-book-review.html

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Henry Mu
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