M & D Deep Duck Misc.

[Monte Davis]

Or that in 1851 (payoff rimshot in 'Empire of Necessity') Melville's
father-on-law, Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Massachiusetts Supreme
Court, denied a writ of habeas corpus that would have challenged the
Fugitive Slave Act.

That sent 17-year-old Thomas Sims from Boston "back to Savannah, where he
was publicly whipped and put to work in a rice field."

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:43 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wasn't aware that Melville's grandfather took active part in the Boston
> Tea Party
>
>
> On Saturday, January 10, 2015, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Melville resounds, reverberates, thunders, rumbles, grumbles, roars,
>> and tangles in ambiguities the lines of M&D. Not to mention much of
>> P's greater works.
>>
>> Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and
>> prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself;
>> for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm;
>> and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the
>> fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose
>> of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being
>> brought into actual play- this is a thing which carries more of true
>> terror than any other aspect of this dangerous affair. But why say
>> more? All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters
>> round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden
>> turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, everpresent
>> perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the
>> whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than
>> though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a
>> harpoon, by your side.
>>
>> M-D, Ch. 60, "The Line"
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>hints, verbal whiffs
>> >
>> > I finished Empire of Necessity, and Benito Cerreno -- the (white)
>> Spanish
>> > "captain" whose rebellious slaves actually command the ship -- will
>> > henceforward be closer in my mind to Weissmann/Blicero than ever
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I like that....did not come close to seeing it although I know The Dead
>> >> twice...
>> >> but I think you are right....
>> >>
>> >> Which is reminding me....I think TRP has lots of lit echoes, as always,
>> >> but
>> >> many times, as just hints, just verbal whiffs, riffing on whether than
>> >> actually
>> >> alluding often.
>> >>
>> >> I have mentioned The Tempest. See if you see the famous end of The
>> Great
>> >> Gatsby
>> >> in places?....waves + beating back...or am i just projecting what is
>> >> only "natural" ways of writing
>> >> about such?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:04 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Yes, the entire paragraph is beautifully composed.
>> >> >
>> >> > Reminds of "The Dead"
>> >> >
>> >> > "The Snow Is General All Over Ireland"
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> http://drmstream.com/2010/03/snow-was-general-all-over-ireland-the-last-paragraph-of-joyces-the-dead/
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/publicationsprizes/discoveries/discoveriesfall1997/01louisabennion.pdf
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> p. 6...P, always observing, sez everyone-- with a lyrical phrase I
>> >> >> love: "Clouds blown to Chalksmears" .
>> >> >> Haven't we all seen that but not with those words?
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