In only his second chapter in the flesh (#29, Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb), Ahab utters our first (unless I missed one), "Avast!"
Yeay! His Noodly Appendage at work in classic Melville.
(And I'm contemplating a more serious, thoughtful M-D post, just haven't made the time to write it yet.)
Technorati tag, I guess: Moby-Dick06
5 comments:
Whatever happened to "This guy needs to take a writing class"? Now it's "Classic Melville".
It was really just the first two chapters that bugged me and made a bad first impression. And the classic is more in the general sense that he's in the cannon of classics. I'm withholding my final opinion until I can judge the work in its entirety.
it grows on you...it's beyond my dreams that I could write today that would 1. be read, 2. be understood, and 3. still speak to and inspire readers in the year 2160.
i'm not saying it's good because it's old...it's just something that impresses me all the more...it's like reading Elizabeth Cady Stanton. You read what she wrote, and it still sounds a little radical...that's impressive.
Just please, for Melville's sake, don't fire the cannon!
Ok, ok, I don't always proof my comments the way I should. I actually realized it in bed last night (don't ask my why it came to me then), but there's no editing these.
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