Comments | scratchmonkey: What the hey?

scratchmonkey

What the hey?

Aug 24, 2007 11:35

It seems like everybody's having a difficult or moody week. Maybe it's the impending change of season; or more likely that everybody seems to be going through some sort of change in their life and it's hard to not be melancholy over moving away from what's become familiar. It's the choice between drifting away or rotting in place ( Read more... )

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deojuvame August 24 2007, 23:44:02 UTC

My god. I've been having the shittiest weekend in YEARS and I thought it was just me.

Getting creeped out now...

deojuvame August 24 2007, 23:44:20 UTC

Week. Not weekend.

scratchmonkey August 24 2007, 23:53:53 UTC

Yeah, I think that we've had now, at least 6 people state how shitty this last week has been.

seryoga August 25 2007, 04:04:51 UTC

Dude, I'm having a shitty MONTH! Got laid off and back to living with my parents. I can't blame my company though, hey, if there weren't enough ad sales to publish the book, then there's no use working on it further.

I've had Moby Dick laying around for years and I've been tempted to look at it from time to time (following your consistent recommendations) yet it seems to imposing, like a Tolstoy novel or something. It just seems like one of those "classics" that no one actually reads, but just has sitting on their shelves.

I'm really asking this, Scratch, what makes this book interesting enough to revist for you?

scratchmonkey August 30 2007, 21:16:24 UTC

Hmm, this is a difficult question to answer, not only because we seem to have wildly different tastes in terms in fiction.

Mainly I think it's because Melville is a fantastic writer in terms of putting together a sentence, he's got a surprisingly sharp sense of humor that he sneaks in from time to time and more importantly, I think it's clear that he has a deep and abiding love of what it is to be human and how we all have similar relationships to the ineffable.

My catch phrase for it is "the greatest metaphysical novel of all time", in that it's really about philosophy and man's nature than it is about a whaling ship with a monomanical captain. If I had to try and sell it, the story in a way is about how whaling is at once great and terrible and how Ahab's mission of revenge is an immoral act.

radioronin August 26 2007, 14:20:26 UTC

Now I can't wait to get home and pick up where I left off (around page 237 or so). I love reading that book, I just can't seem to make the least bit of headway in it. If nothing else, Mr. Seryoga, the writing is fantastic. If you ever get the wanderlust in you, read at least the first chapter; it has a great description of the restlessness that drives men to sea ("a drizzly grey November in the soul...")

I think you're right, Thom, it sounds like a lot of us are facing life transitions right now. Also, I just kind of think believe late summer carries an unavoidable melancholy. Maybe a holdover from the back-to-school anxieties of childhood?

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