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

[David Morris]

Because it's not torture.

On Saturday, April 12, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cheney must be waterboarded!
>
> On Saturday, April 12, 2014, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>
>>>  -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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