Moby Dick redux: dedicated to Melvillians everywhere
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3LolaWalser
Me toooo!
4anna_in_pdx
Rather have Ahab mounted on MD's wall :)
5theaelizabet
Love it!
6Macumbeira
Great !
7LolaWalser
Do you think Ahab's happy, tho? Or is he feeling a whale of a disappointment? :)
8anna_in_pdx
The idea of Ahab ever being happy is difficult for me. If he killed Moby Dick and mounted him, I can't imagine what he'd do after that. Kill himself, I would guess. What would he be left with if he lost the object of his obsession?
9LolaWalser
Yeah, I always thought Ahab would crumble like a husk the second he nailed his prey. And also, the universe would end. (Minding always the metaphysical storyline.)
10LolaWalser
How about we reread Moby, Macou? But this time, let's pretend everyone's a girl.
11LolaWalser
Ishmael = Abishag
Ahab = Jerusha
Father Mapple = Mother Mapple
Elijah = Eunice
Captain Bildad = Madame Captain Bildad
Captain Peleg = Madame Captain Peleg
Queequeg = Salome
Starbuck = Stardoe
Stubb = Imogen
Flask = Pepita
Moby Dick = Mabel Twat
Ahab = Jerusha
Father Mapple = Mother Mapple
Elijah = Eunice
Captain Bildad = Madame Captain Bildad
Captain Peleg = Madame Captain Peleg
Queequeg = Salome
Starbuck = Stardoe
Stubb = Imogen
Flask = Pepita
Moby Dick = Mabel Twat
12anna_in_pdx
LOL Mabel Twat, good grief that would be really, well I was going to say "epic" but of course anything concerning MD is already in that category.
13elenchus
>11 LolaWalser:
How did you come up with those names?! Have you been skulking in the weeds, biding your time until you could break those out on an unsuspecting public? They are brilliant but it's been too long since I read MB to get any specific references. Well, other than Mabel Twat which had me snorting out loud.
How did you come up with those names?! Have you been skulking in the weeds, biding your time until you could break those out on an unsuspecting public? They are brilliant but it's been too long since I read MB to get any specific references. Well, other than Mabel Twat which had me snorting out loud.
14LolaWalser
Yes, yes, my secret name is She-Who-Skulks-In-The-Weeds! Some insist it's a mistranslation of Sheep-Who-Bulks-In-Tweeds, but they are all on my hit list.
Oh dear, I better save you and other innocent bystanders the temptation to go Biblical-exegesis-wise: I just pulled those off my irregular head. (Stubb evoked Imogen Stubbs, actress. I love the image of an Imogen, on a whaler, second mating.) But, who knows, if there's anything to the science of free-associating, there are treazhures of meaning to unearth here!
:)
This comes from having to amuse oneself countless solitary hours in an odd childhood.
Oh dear, I better save you and other innocent bystanders the temptation to go Biblical-exegesis-wise: I just pulled those off my irregular head. (Stubb evoked Imogen Stubbs, actress. I love the image of an Imogen, on a whaler, second mating.) But, who knows, if there's anything to the science of free-associating, there are treazhures of meaning to unearth here!
:)
This comes from having to amuse oneself countless solitary hours in an odd childhood.
15Macumbeira
LoL is your little name isn't it Lola ?
I'll reread anything with you !
I'll reread anything with you !
16Macumbeira
Salome is too feminine as a stand in for Queen Queg,
17LolaWalser
Ruf mich bei meinem Kosenamen! (Excuse the Tchermann, I didn't want to risk Dutch. Oops--Flemish!!)
In a SHOCKING coincidence (truly!), guess what I scored yesterday--a little hand printed book of something called "The Ahab Poems"! Not sure it's allowed to post from it, tho. Maybe just partially? Here are the first five lines of Fishing with Ahab:
"Ahab's pike?" I don't remember Ahab's pike.
In a SHOCKING coincidence (truly!), guess what I scored yesterday--a little hand printed book of something called "The Ahab Poems"! Not sure it's allowed to post from it, tho. Maybe just partially? Here are the first five lines of Fishing with Ahab:
Killifish big
Killifish white
Killifish come
Feel Ahab's pike
Killifish where ticklish?
{...}
"Ahab's pike?" I don't remember Ahab's pike.
18Meredy
>17 LolaWalser: "Pike" meaning spear?
19Macumbeira
Pike meaning spear ?
Prickly pear Prickly pear
Ts eliot
Prickly pear Prickly pear
Ts eliot
20Macumbeira
Kose - namen ? Mais oui Lolaaa, you have a way with words! it is as flemish as it is hoch deutschisch.
An Ahab-erlebnis expressed with : "ahaa, we need a bigger boat"
An Ahab-erlebnis expressed with : "ahaa, we need a bigger boat"
21LolaWalser
>18 Meredy:
That or something rude! :)
Having glanced at other poems--one of which imagines Ahab IN LOVE with the whale! (did any of us consider this possibility during our EPIC read? I don't think so.) I think Mac's on a good track...
>20 Macumbeira:
A bigger boat that's a love boat!
That or something rude! :)
Having glanced at other poems--one of which imagines Ahab IN LOVE with the whale! (did any of us consider this possibility during our EPIC read? I don't think so.) I think Mac's on a good track...
>20 Macumbeira:
A bigger boat that's a love boat!
23LolaWalser
Ha! I've never seen that movie, that's funnier than I'd have expected it to be. Great delivery...