the lterary man & the whale


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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