Herman Melville: subversive pointy-headed DU-type intellectual

[Richardo]

As those of you who visit the Fiction forum may know, I'm reading Moby Dick for the first time and am enjoying it thoroughly. Magnificent use of language and a surprising amount of humor.

Came across this gem today:

"Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth: that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?"

Wow. Kind of explains the shipwreck-strewn coastline of the neocons, don't it?

[freedom_to_read]

1. Have you read the Night Inspector?

Might be a good follow up to Moby Dick, it's a wonderful historical fiction with Melville as one of the main characters. Written by Frederick Busch (Harmony Books, 1999).

[Richardo]

4. No - but sounds interesting.

I'll give it a look. :thumbsup:

[BurtWorm]

2. Have you read Kleeby Dick?

:o (Gods, help me? Please?)

[Richardo]

5. No, but I did read Moby Kleeb...

:7

[sir_captain]

3. Fantastic novel

easily the best American author in my opinion.

Look for a big-time Melville book in September...I can say no more. ;-)

[Richardo]

6. Biography? I'm guessing it's not new material...

...him being dead and all. :)

[sir_captain]

7. Heh...yeah

And yes, it's an intellectual biography...