Subject: the lterary man & the whale
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2001 - 03:00:33 GMT
I know John doesn't wish to embark on a discussion of aesthetics
&, believe me, neither do I. Given my own disinclination for abstract
thought, the prospect of making one's living teaching the stuff has much
the same appeal as a couple of years in the quinquereme of Ninevah.
All the same, just this once.
Is Moby a symbol? Of anything? Or of something?
Or of nothing? Or, perhaps, of everything?
In the Bernstein's early musical, 'Wonderful Town', it's Eileen's
sister, I think, who makes the definitive comment on the great
white joker.
'Moby Dick,' she says, falteringly. 'It's about this whale
....'
Scottie B.
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