Tag: Moby Dick

Moby Dick, courtesy of ianbeverdge on Deviantart.

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There’s a meme about the upcoming election in Britain involving the simple slogan “Zero Seats.” The slogan relates to the impending wipeout of the Tory Party. It isn’t being used by British liberals, but by politically engaged people on the Right. Naturally, such a statement and goal immediately invites the counter-proposition: “Labour will be even worse.” Labour could very well be even worse than the Tory government, but the impetus to utterly ruin the Tory Party once and for all remains regardless. Similarly, given that we live under a “uni-party” system, the claim can also be made that it makes no difference which “cheek of the arse” sits in power, to quote George Galloway. (more…)

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There is a wonderful Ridley Scott film from 1977 called The Duellists, based on a Joseph Conrad short story, “The Duel.” It follows the exploits of two hussars in Napoleon’s Grande Armée as they traveled from 1800 Strasbourg, to 1812 Russia, and back again to France after Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo. Were their enemies the Prussians, or the Russians, or the British? No, their true enemies were one another — (more…)

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Chapter 12 of Studies in Classic American Literature

POST-MORTEM effects?

But what of Walt Whitman?

The ‘good grey poet’.

Was he a ghost, with all his physicality?

The good grey poet.  (more…)

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Translated by Simona Draghici, revised by Greg Johnson

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David Herbert Lawrence, 1885–1930

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“What then is Moby Dick? He is the deepest blood-being of the white race; he is our deepest blood-nature.

“And he is hunted, hunted, hunted by the maniacal fanaticism of our white mental consciousness. We want to hunt him down. To subject him to our will. (more…)