Across The Pond

[belamyi]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Fountainhead.

That Ayn Rand is ever taken so seriously in any way is hardly surpising anymore.

 

[palbert]

Note to belamo

Moby Dick is less a novel for knowing the real story, which is the story of the Whaleship Essex.

Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea (The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex), Viking 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)

As noted above, word of the sinking reached a young Herman Melville when, while serving on the whaleship Acushnet, he met the son of Owen Chase who was serving on another whaleship. Coincidentally, the two ships encountered each other less than 100 mi (160 km) from where Essex sank. Chase lent his father's account of the ordeal to Melville, who read it at sea and was inspired by the idea that a whale was capable of such violence. Melville later met Captain Pollard, writing inside his copy of Chase's narrative, "Met Captain Pollard on Nantucket. To most islanders a nobody. To me, one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met." In time, he wrote Moby-Dick: or, The Whale, in which a sperm whale is said to be capable of similar acts. Melville's book draws its inspiration from the first part of the Essex story, ending with the sinking.

 

[belamyi]

Note to belamo

Moby Dick is less a novel for knowing the real story, which is the story of the Whaleship Essex.

Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea (The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex), Viking 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)

Who looks for a "real story" in a fucknig novel with internal monolgues? even Capote had to claudicate.

 

[palbert]

Who looks for a "real story" in a fucknig novel with internal monolgues? even Capote had to claudicate.

"Fucknig?"

 

[belamyi]

"Fucknig?"

And "monolgues"... the minute of tag-free editing was breathing in my neck

 

[figjam]

A Cock worth Orange.

 

[purina]

Lou Reed nominates Lou Reed.

 

[belamyi]

Lou Reed nominates Lou Reed.

MotherfuCKer.