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

[alice malice]

Well, I'd rather not hear your German Nationalism and defense of the
far Right and the murdering thug of Russia but...then, back to BE.
Right?

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 6:07 PM, 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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