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To: Rambi who wrote (35990)	4/26/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

>>>>>Then there is a whole separate class of people who read The Celestine Prophecy and believed they'd found the true meaning of life. What does one say to them?<<<<< Goodbye? I did like the movie, Moby Dick, the one with Gregory Peck as Ahab. I see that there is a new one with Anthony Hopkins? I want to see that. It's a good story, but the book is just impossible. I like what Woody Allen said. He said he took a speed-reading course and read Moby Dick in half an hour. "It's about whales."

To: Rambi who wrote (35990)	4/26/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I loved Moby Dick. It played a major role in my decision to take up whaling as a career which ended with me on the beach out here. So few whalers ship out of Honolulu anymore. I particularly liked the part where Captain Peck summoned Richard Basehart and the other Pequod crew to their deaths. Spine-chilling!

To: Rambi who wrote (35990)	4/26/1999 6:45:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I read Moby Dick out of guilt some ten years ago. It was ok. There was some real neat imagery. Funny - I like Moby Dick much more when Cap'n Picard (Star Trek - the next genitalia) quotes a snippet while rasslin cyborgs. "If his chest were a cannon he'd have shot his heart out at him." Marvelous metaphor of self-destructive vendetta. Not like self-destructive vendetta is a hot topic, or anything!!!

To: Rambi who wrote (35990)	4/26/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: George S. Montgomery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.