NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

[Perry Noid]

OMG that is so obvious! And the whole time reading it I am constructing
wild theories as to why the man is hairless. Represents his supernatural
otherworldliness, a skin suited for a different terrain, Yada yada yada
can't believe I didn't consider the freaking whale itself.

I'm going to have to buy a copy because there is a lot I want to go back
to. Got mine from the library

And Mark that home alone bit is hilarious. Spot on.


On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> 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...
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>
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