Wednesday, November 15, 2006

No, Queequeg! Don't do it!

Oxford University Press blog (yes they have a blog) has something special for Lisa B.:
"On November 14th, 1851 Herman Melville published Moby Dick, the classic tale of Captain Ahab's whale hunt." (OUPblog: This Day in History: Moby Dick is Published)
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2 comments:

  1. Lisa B.11:48 AM

    Ouch. Every so often, I feel a twinge in my conscience that I haven't read this monument. Can't I just admire it from afar? Do I have to plunge my hands into the spermiceti? Do I?

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  2. Clint Gardner7:39 PM

    All hate the white whale. The evil white whale with his dead-blue eye.

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