Comments on Adirondack Almanack: Moby Dick and the Adirondacks

You guys… Go see the play! It is amazing, full of ...

2009-11-23T17:57:13.181-05:00

You guys… Go see the play! It is amazing, full of energy and beautiful writing and fine acting. Methinks you digress tooo much!

I've read Moby Dick more times than I care to reca...

2009-11-19T13:45:03.330-05:00

I've read Moby Dick more times than I care to recall, having taken four or five American Romanticism courses in college... I tend to appreciate the aspects of the book when Melville turns into a marine biologist and writes about the anatomy of a whale and whatnot... Mary, you might be on to something with the Stubb/Landsman theory, and I don't think that's less literary at all -- in

PS, Less literary, but also some parallels to "The...

2009-11-19T08:59:00.246-05:00

PS, Less literary, but also some parallels to "The Wire." Anybody else think Sgt. Jay Landsman is modeled on Stubb, the second mate? Both have a vulgar, sarcastic and hilarious coaching style, yet their crews respect them.

Brian, I can relate to the spell it casts, in sort...

2009-11-19T08:42:54.195-05:00

Brian, I can relate to the spell it casts, in sort of an opposite way. I was scraping, acid-treating, waterproofing and painting a basement while listening to this book. All I recall of what should have been a tedious experience is being carried away by the Pequod.

Here's my Moby Dick story. In the mid-1980s I w...

2009-11-19T08:02:04.767-05:00

Here's my Moby Dick story.

In the mid-1980s I was on the hippy trail in southern Europe with a girlfriend when I became engrossed in Melville's book.

Obsessed. Outside the train window, Italy and Greece flashed by.

She sat opposite me in the train car, her mood downshifting from hostility to loathing, while I lost myself in the world of Ishmael and