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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rambi who wrote (35990)4/26/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: George S. Montgomery  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Rambi, a small, and final for this evening, for real, comment about Moby Dick. I hold it as one of the half-dozen-or-so most inspirational things I have read.

I read too slowly. Some sort of astigmatism. And Moby Dick was read in a bristling NE preppy acacemic environment. It took weeks, with daily reconaissances (that is no doubt not a word).

I saw the symbolism in the whale, in the captain, in the first mate, and, also, I believe, in some person back in the home port.

I was thrilled - and remain thrilled in recollection.

geo.

ps: I did the Caine Mutiny on my own - and like it likewise. g.
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