Subject: Re: What are people reading?
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 19:01:03 EST
>Last book I read: Moby Dick by Herman Melville("Loomings," "The
>Whiteness of the Whale," "Queequeg in his coffin," and "The Symphony"
>about a dozen times each)
How strange... I'm reading Moby Dick right now, actually I was just reading
it about 15 minutes ago, before I decided to check my mail. I'm only a
little past 1/2 done, though.
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French's comment about "Invisible Man" being the "Moby Dick" of the American
twentieth century has me pondering if there is a twentieth century book of
Moby Dick's stature? I can't think of any and I wonder what has changed in
writing and writers that in a century that produced more books by far than
any other there is nothing comparable to this classic.
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From Paul, somewhere on the Paris-Chinese border.
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