MJJG: intertextual link-o-mania - 115 al fine

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 15:15:41 UTC 2021


HELL NO, IN THUNDER as Melville writes.....

C'mon, man....

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:05 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> pg. 112 in the Penguin Modern Classics edition:
>
> "1 of these days 1 of our sons, perhaps the son of a Polish immigrant,
> will emerge from some steel town in Pennsylvania and mount a turd on the
> wall of a museum and make it stick. . .and when you ask him what it is
> he will put on his dark glasses and snub you the way you did us."
>
> This is, more or less, Andy Warhol, no?
>
>  > 8) pg 135 - _Moby-Dick_
>  > (Musclewhite horrified that a black person dared to interpret it)
>
> pg. 114: An anachronistic reference to C.L.R. James' "Mariners,
> Renegades and Castaways" (1953), perhaps? Or are there other candidates?
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