[bookshare-discuss] Re: Moby Dick Why three copies???
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:52:00 -0400
I swore I would not reply and this has to be my last look at this list but that
last number - 570 +/- should be the whole books. The others don't really
belong listed as Melville's Moby Dick. There should be some other way to
identify them.
Amy
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From: "Katie Hill" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:52 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Moby Dick Why three copies???
> Good one Evan! But who ate the cold poor-aged sailor?
>
>
> The joy of life is living in the question
> Katie Hill
> Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Reese [mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:07 PM
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> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Moby Dick Why three copies???
>
> Sorry, Katie, but the only idea that comes to me is Papa Whale, Mama Whale
> and Baby Whale. <smile>
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Katie Hill" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:01 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Moby Dick Why three copies???
>
>
>> HI All,
>>
>> I was on the site and there are three copies of this book.
>>
>> The smallest is 5 pages and is called Moby Dick Chapter 72
>> The second is just called Moby Dick and is 273 pages 108KB
>> The third is called Moby Dick and is 570 pages 574kb.
>>
>> Any idea on this???
>>
>> The joy of life is living in the question
>> Katie Hill
>> Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Grandma Cindy [mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 3:30 PM
>> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: MOby Dick and first lines
>>
>>
>> -Yes.
>>
>>> It does begin, I am fairly certain, with, "Call me
>>> Ishmael," does it not?
>>>
>>> Brian M
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:45 AM
>>> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] MOby Dick and first
>>> lines
>>>
>>>
>>> > I may be wrong (again) but my memory is that it
>>> starts
>>> > with Ishmael walking down a street toward the
>>> harbor.
>>> > But that may be my memory from the movie.
>>> >
>>> > I just found the first chapter online. Ishmael
>>> waxes
>>> > poetic about wanting to go to sea when things get
>>> him
>>> > down and about the streets and the harbor
>>> ("battery" I
>>> > didn't finish reading. But he doesn't seem to be
>>> > floating on a coffin. Maybe I didn't read far
>>> enough.
>>> >
>>> > Cindy
>>> >
>>> > --- Brian Miller <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > "Call me Ishmael."
>>> > >
>>> > > That's how Moby Dick begins.
>>> > >
>>> > > The narrator, Ishmael, is clinging to the coffin
>>> of
>>> > > his friend Quiqueg as he floats in the Pacific.
>>> > >
>>> > > Brian Miller
>>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > > From: Evan Reese
>>> > > To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:44 PM
>>> > > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic,
>>> > > summer chunksters
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Sorry, Amy, but I don't understand why this is
>>> a
>>> > > trick question. Isn't the name of the narrator
>>> of
>>> > > Moby dick given in the first sentence? True, it
>>> is
>>> > > only given once, but it is right there first
>>> thing.
>>> > > It is also quite a famous opening line, as I
>>> recall,
>>> > > so it's a pretty easy question.
>>> > >
>>> > > Evan
>>> > >
>>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > > From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
>>> > > To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:44 PM
>>> > > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun
>>> topic,
>>> > > summer chunksters
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I had a similar experience with Silas Marner
>>> and
>>> > > my then English Teacher should have been shot
>>> for
>>> > > having the class divide Steinbeck's The Pearl
>>> into 8
>>> > > sections and spend 8 weeks on it. If felt like 8
>>> > > years.
>>> > >
>>> > > I finally figured out why Melville spent so
>>> much
>>> > > time on certain sections and was proud of myself
>>> > > when I later heard that the Melville scholar had
>>> > > taught the same in his Melville seminar which I
>>> had
>>> > > been unable to attend. To truly appreciate how
>>> the
>>> > > members of the crew could follow Ahab, even to
>>> the
>>> > > the brink of insanity one needs to appreciate
>>> the
>>> > > long hours of tedium involved with whaling
>>> cruises.
>>> > > Remember, most of these trips took 3 years to
>>> fill
>>> > > the hold with oil. Some 5. Rarely did it take
>>> under
>>> > > 3. What is really amazing is how much he
>>> discribes
>>> > > really happened - only not all on one voyage and
>>> not
>>> > > all in the same crew. However, when you think of
>>> > > what happened on the Bounty it makes sense that
>>> > > Melville would need to show some of the reasons
>>> why
>>> > > this crew did not rebell. I don't know how many
>>> > > times I have now read it but like Ismael's need
>>> to
>>> > > go to sea, periodically I need to join him. I
>>> don't
>>> > > know if Melville did this deliberately or by
>>> > > instinct but it worked.
>>> > >
>>> > > By the way - a favorite trick question for
>>> exams
>>> > > or smart -a lit majors is to ask the name of the
>>> > > narrator of Moby Dick.
>>> > >
>>> > > Amy
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > > From: Rick Roderick
>>> > > To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> > > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:28 PM
>>> > > Subject: [Bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun
>>> topic,
>>> > > summer chunksters
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi Amy,
>>> > >
>>> > > A book that fits that description is Silas
>>> > > Marner. Although high school didn't completely
>>> ruin
>>> > > it for me, it could have. I read it a few years
>>> > > ago, and I got much more out of it the second
>>> time
>>> > > around.
>>> > >
>>> > > Some of my high school English teachers
>>> got
>>> > > very concerned about vocabulary. Some of the
>>> words
>>> > > were very useful, such as inference, but how
>>> many
>>> > > people care that a joseph is a female rading
>>> cape?
>>> > >
>>> > > I did have one English teacher at that
>>> time
>>> > > that really focused on themes.
>>> > >
>>> > > The thing about novels of an earlier era
>>> is
>>> > > that often, the pacing is much slower than
>>> today's
>>> > > books. I find that in portions of Moby Dick. I
>>> > > have finished Volume II of five volumes. Yet,
>>> in
>>> > > some of the slower sections, a lot of humor is
>>> > > diaplayed.
>>> > >
>>> > >
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>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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