Big Books of American Literature:
Alchemies of Mind Day 7: Thursday, February 9, 2006 Moby-Dick (The Third Quarter...) Are you reading it too late? Too soon? Laura S.: I am angry that books are labeled "Classics" and force-fed to us by overanxious parents and/or English teachers before we are ready to read them, because then we run away screaming from the genre. Angeldeep: I have a kind of uneducated reading of the book...which I'm trying to refocus as we proceed....I definately agree that readings are greatly context based, especially humor....my understanding of the branch of religion he is talking about doesn't really allow for me to pick up on this. |
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Picking up from Tuesday's exchange between Jess: What's the use of that...? & Chris (paraphrased): Why must we rely on capitalist use-value? We mustn't. But what then DO we rely on? |
"Guilded Plaster and Pasteboard Mask," from MSN Encarta
We left off, on Tuesday, w/ the "pasteboard mask" passage
from Ch. 36 (The Quarter-Deck)...
what illuminations have occurred, in the time between?
Abby Schlacter, Queequeg in her Coffin II (1997)
What is Melville saying, in such passages, about the relation between body and soul?
Might these be said to represent, respectively, the unconscious and consciousness?