Birthday of Big Marine Mammal Avatar Creators
Over at the Soul Of America, we are reminded that it's Herman Melville's 198th 189th birthday.
... There is no Whale before He who populates a goodly portion of that book ... That Big Marine Mammal is archetypal, now.
And His (or, Her) echoes in the culture are manifest: We get Futurama's We're Whalers On The Moon / We Carry A Harpoon; or Robert Graves' "Good-Bye To All That" (where -- and I paraphrase -- the President of his College at post-Great War Oxford tells the assembled, 'Gentlemen, the menu indicates that tonight we are dining on "Whale and Pigeon Pie." You will find the ratio of the ingredients to be precisely one whale to one pigeon'); or, Robertson Davies' What's Bred In The Bone, where the main character has a dinner of Moby meat with his flagrantly unfaithful wife, in a dingy London restaurant during WWII (" '...Catch Me!' She said through a mouthful of whale' ").
Of course, when something appears in Family Guy, it's now hard-wired into our DNA.
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
-- Herman Melville / Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
... There is no Whale before He who populates a goodly portion of that book ... That Big Marine Mammal is archetypal, now.
And His (or, Her) echoes in the culture are manifest: We get Futurama's We're Whalers On The Moon / We Carry A Harpoon; or Robert Graves' "Good-Bye To All That" (where -- and I paraphrase -- the President of his College at post-Great War Oxford tells the assembled, 'Gentlemen, the menu indicates that tonight we are dining on "Whale and Pigeon Pie." You will find the ratio of the ingredients to be precisely one whale to one pigeon'); or, Robertson Davies' What's Bred In The Bone, where the main character has a dinner of Moby meat with his flagrantly unfaithful wife, in a dingy London restaurant during WWII (" '...Catch Me!' She said through a mouthful of whale' ").
Of course, when something appears in Family Guy, it's now hard-wired into our DNA.
Herman Left Out The Part Where Whales Like 'Total'
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UND NOCH IMMER MEHR: Once I saw this, I could not un-see it. It is an actual book.
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