"Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main"

[Seymour Landnau]

I happen to be right at that moment in the book.  Not right now, now.  I
didn't stop midsentence and check my email.  Two days ago.  Ishmael is now
meeting the second owner of the Pequod.  They sail shortly after that?
Once again you have dashed my experience of a novel's riches.

I wonder if I would have noticed that they sail on Christmas?  So the book
begins on....the Solstice?

Inconvenience.  There's a word, like grace, that pops up all the time.  I
wonder what the Author means by it?  The opposite of grace.  I am reminded
of Reef's first experience with explosions as a child.  Something about
clowns and dynamite.  Hysterically inconvenienced.



On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you all forgotten, as I had, that the couple-three days
> Ishmael and Queequeg spend together, sleeping together,
> sharing their respective religious traditions
> before the *Pequod *sails are the days before Christmas,
> most interestingly Christmas Eve?
>
> The *Pequod *sailed on Christmas day.
>
> Ah, Herman, you sly wonderful genius.
>
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