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

[David Morris]

Cheney must be waterboarded!

On Saturday, April 12, 2014, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> 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.
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>>  -
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