for the record
I can't fix the damn all consuming right now.
I'm still reading "everything and more"
I'm done navigating.
Moby Dick... well... what the hell was I thinking?
I'm still reading "everything and more"
I'm done navigating.
Moby Dick... well... what the hell was I thinking?
posted by J.R. at 9:26 PM
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I just "fixed" my All Consuming list last night and I don't really like the results. Mostly it's fine but I hate how it says "StarGirl is consuming 38 things including…" I'm not consuming 38 things; I am finished with 36 of them. As far as I can tell marking things as completed has no effect on this number. That's just dumb.
As a student of American literature, I probably shouldn't say this, but reading Moby Dick for enjoyment just isn't possible. It's like the Bible or anything written by Heidegger--meant to be digested in doses and far more interesting to discuss with other people. I've been assigned theDick in several classes throughout my studies, and I've never been able to read it from cover to cover. But the text for more reasons that I could even skirt in this space is genius. Read about it and talk about it, and don't feel bad if you can't sort through the zillions of pages of sea-sickening boredom. Seriously. And then wait for the flood of Moby Dick references you'll start seeing everywhere. It's annoying, really.
If you're interested in consuming Melville, I strongly suggest Benito Cereno. It's probably my favorite Melville, and one of my favorite texts in general (and I'm not at all a 19th century kind of girl).
Or for a different perspective on some similar issues (and plenty of Melville references) take a look at Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water. Fantastic and often very funny.
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