A Sense of Doubt blog post #2859 - MOBY DICK - THAT ONE THING FOR 2212.16

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2859 - MOBY DICK - THAT ONE THING FOR 2212.16

Every Fall I think about Moby Dick.

It was the Fall quarter of my sophomore year of college that I read Moby Dick and wrote a paper about it. The essay did not score highly, but the preface that I wrote about the music of David Bowie started it off with a "bang," according to my instructor: "You started with a Bowie bang but ended with a Pip whimper"; Pip being a character in Moby Dick.

One of these years I will engage in a re-read of the Melville classic.

Or at least that's what I tell myself.

There are also so many books I have not read the first time, and yet, this book haunts me much as the whale haunted Ahab. I must grapple with why and find a way to confront the great whale of my unconscious mind.

I could write a much better essay on Pip and Moby Dick now, so many years later.

I would still start off with a Bowie bang.

This is THAT ONE THING for December 16th, 2022.

Thanks for tuning in.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2212.16 - 10:10

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