Hmm, so I don't actually have to watch classic movies. I can just read
the IMDB summaries...
DD
On 4/3/2011 10:27 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> You may have a point I was going to check out Moby Dick at the library
> but then I saw this and realized I already know the good stuff. Why
> RTFM when you can get the cliff notes? Who has time for "...layers of
> literary symbolism..." these days? Sounds like something that would
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> Moby-Dick
> Herman Melville
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> Moby-Dick is Herman Melville's American classic in which Ishmael
> details his adventure as a whaler under the leadership of Captain
> Ahab. Aboard The Pequod, Ishmael tells of Ahab's maniacal search for
> the leviathan that took his leg --- the sperm whale Moby Dick.
> Melville combines a deep knowledge of whaling with layers of literary
> symbolism as the peg-legged captain's single-minded hunt leads to his
> doom.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Multimediac <mr_ree_mann@...> wrote:
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> > I think you are making too much of it. Maybe he's taking after his
> dad and editing in real time by scrubbing the timeline.... looking for
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> > > Yes, the "give it to me in IM speak crowd." You are wasting your
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