Scrape away, boys, scrape away.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I recently read Moby Dick, because I wanted to immerse myself in Captain Ahab, the monomaniacal sailor, who when you look the one way is a tough peasanty sailor and the other way is a tragic hero of Hamlet proportions. And it is true, it is all in the book: the obsession which becomes a symbol for everything wrong in the world. The conflict between modernising man and nature. Fate's cracked heels. It is truly great stuff...
Read more at Work in Progress
posted by Robert Sloon at 2:10 PM
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