He's the albatross around our necks

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:29, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I never thought of you as someone that would have read Coleridge

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:31, Reply)

Read it at school when I was 13 and before I was demoted from the scholars class

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:33, Reply)

I had to do S Level English and we read Moby Dick.
I'd forgotten about that until you mentioned the scholars' class.

Thanks Nakers!
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:35, Reply)

An s level must be way below an a level

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:38, Reply)

it's the next one up from A Level.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:38, Reply)

Eh? Never heard of it
I here bad things about moby dick
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:42, Reply)

Didn't AA have to go into hospital to have that dealt with?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:43, Reply)

Moby Dick is very dull
But thematically extremely complex. A bit like Heart of Darkness, but with a whale instead of Mr Kurtz.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:44, Reply)

I'll probably just listen to Leviathon again instead

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:44, Reply)

Your methods are unsound.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:46, Reply)

Moby Dick is a reasonable book interspliced with Melville's fucking research notes.
When you discover it was published unedited it all makes sense. A decent editor would have chopped out his tedious research about types of whales etc which would have maintained the momentum instead of disrupting a reasonably-engaging yarn every thirty pages with some prick's fucking homework.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:46, Reply)

Ever read Heart of Darkness?
I think you'd like it. It's really short too.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:48, Reply)

I've not actually

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 9:02, Reply)

Melville is also indirectly responsible for everyone's favourite bald vegan, Moby.
I think he owes us all an apology.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:54, Reply)

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:54, Reply)

Yeah, thanks for illustrating that for me, HH.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:58, Reply)

I was just about to mention Moby but you beat me to it

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:59, Reply)

+u

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 5 Mar 2013, 8:40, Reply)