Why not do a group read of THE great American novel? Moby-Dick?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

All agreed, even if the reference to the financial crisis seems a 
stretch. I still think we should go on with BE. Unfinished business and 
very much worth our while, I believe.

Regretfully, I can still not offer to host a session, as I have to do 
things in my own time. I am therefore not really in a position to 
complain if no-one else finds the time and/or energy to continue...

As an aside: I much prefer you waxing poetical over Melville and Pynchon 
to you bellowing "Putin must be punished!"

Thomas



Am 12.04.2014 12:35, schrieb alice malice:
> Only problem is with the idea of the great American novel, a concept
> that has, if nothing else, made for pulp and grist to/for/from the
> mill, but it's difficult to dismiss Melville's great white whale as
> candidate, and for Pynchon fans, in the world of great books,
> Moby-Dick or The Whale is a great influence. The common whiteness
> theme alone needs further development, and, as Melville's monstrosity
> gained critical mass when the excesses of market capitalism capsized
> the nation and the world's economy, it's seem a revisiting Melville
> now makes much ado of something, though what that something is has yet
> to be defined, though some will name it and paint it in clear shades
> of blackness, it seems so  like the mysterious whale itself that
> smashes down on the masts of industry and greed, then suck all down in
> a Vortex to the bottomless perdition where God's foot weaves the
> tapestry, the mantle of Varo's Earth.
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