NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

[David Morris]

I'm sure it is no accident the Moby Dick is so evoked by BM.  The Judge is
the whale.

David Morris

On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Moby Dick was at the front of my mind throughout. Instead of man hunting a
> whale, and everything that represents, man is hunting man. I'm sure u all
> have dissected this one like an injun scalp but since I haven't really
> discussed it with anyone I'll say this in passing to get it out. I think
> the lack of sex scenes was certainly indicative of something because we
> know sex occurs in the book. And I would like to know what anyone thinks of
> the idiot, his cage and his chain to the judge and why the judge rescues
> him. One of the rare appearances of the fairer sex is when he is liberated
> from his cage. And just a random thought: when reading the passage where
> the judge is walking around with the idiot on the chain my mind seemed to
> conjur Dracula and Renfield. Was wondering what you smarter folk took from
> that whole interaction.
>
> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kbob42 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Yes, page 247.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just finished reading that for the first time last week. Had read the
>>> Road and No Country, was underwhelmed, and was not expecting to be
>>> wowed like I was with Blood Meridian. I was expecting it to be another over
>>> praised novel that did not meet expectations but it far exceeded mine.
>>>
>>> That *is* Blood Meridian right?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...They rode on. The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the
>>>> round earth rolled beneath them silently milling the greater void wherein
>>>> they were contained. In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena
>>>> were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone
>>>> nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of
>>>> these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole
>>>> on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and
>>>> nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all
>>>> preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with
>>>> unguessed kinship.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure some of you will recognize this...
>>>>
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>>>>
>>
>>
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