M & D Deep Duck in flight

[Mark Kohut]

Moby Dick echoes all through the voyage scenes....

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:06 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Uppermost was the impression, that whatever swift, rushing thing I
> stood on was not so much bound to any haven ahead as rushing from all
> havens astern. A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.
> Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit
> that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted. My God!
> what is the matter with me? thought I. Lo! in my brief sleep I had
> turned myself about, and was fronting the ship's stern, with my back
> to her prow and the compass. In an instant I faced back, just in time
> to prevent the vessel from flying up into the wind, and very probably
> capsizing her. How glad and how grateful the relief from this
> unnatural hallucination of the night, and the fatal contingency of
> being brought by the lee!
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now, after letting this sit inside me today,  I have felt another
>> resonance surface..
>>
>> When the Chums land below after going above (the world).
>>
>> As above, so below........
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Chap 7, p 59....The trip is like a flight...why's that?...disconnected
>>> from the watery earth, that reservoir of everything?
>>>
>>> flight, back to echoes of GR and, foreechoes of AtD especially.
>>> Flight, not until the 20th Century, the 'modern' era, remember the
>>> diving plane as Futurism, modernity in Against the Day? Is this
>>> evoked?
>>>
>>> by happenstance, I have just read this on another voyage to Africa
>>> from Woolf's The Voyage Out: "for these reasons [continent unsettled],
>>> they wanted a slow inquisitive kind of ship, comfortable, for they
>>> were bad sailors, but not extravagant, and they would stop at various
>>> ports...." The upper middle class Dalloways, he once in
>>> Parliament....1920's or so...
>>>
>>> "the other half of everything known"....the dark continent, dark with
>>> all its connotations. Esp. slavery.
>>>
>>> Becky quoted the line about "all who set foot on EnGlish soil are
>>> free"....Remember the LED who said he was free, "an English dog"....
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