I bet it was 35 or 40 years ago for me, too. I gave it up after Hermie went on and on about whether a whale is a fish or a mammal (duh!) and IIRC he concluded that it's a fish. My young mind was about to explode (since I KNEW the answer, and "fish" wasn't it!) so I put the book down and never picked it up again.
I'd already seen the movie anyway and they didn't put all that mammal/fish stuff in. Not Gregory Peck's best vehicle but it was better than the book. LOL cheers, frank On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > I first read Mody Dick 35 years ago and am finding it a lighter read now > than I did then, but I'm only a few hundred pages into it so maybe they > really heavy stuff is coming. > > On 8/21/2015 10:07 PM, John wrote: >> >> I am no fan of Melville; I found Moby Dick heavy going, but rope is >> exactly what I expected. That's odd because I heat with wood and the >> secondary definition never occurred to me. >> >> On 8/21/2015 8:38 AM, Mark C wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, Ann. I'm re-reading Moby Dick this summer and Melville is always >>> talking about "cordage". When I looked it up I found out that coils of >>> rope and ships riggingw as the primary meaning, with the landlubberish >>> meaning of chopped wood second. And since the photo is of an extension >>> cord.... >>> >>> Thanks for looking! >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> On 8/20/2015 11:51 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: >>>> >>>> I like it, too - but I expected to see the chopped off ends of a >>>> stack of firewood >>>> >>>> ann >>>> >>>> >>>> On 8/20/2015 7:48 PM, Mark C wrote: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/cordage >>>>> >>>>> This was really an exercise in trying to get a good development time >>>>> to give some very expired film I have on hand a two stop push - but I >>>>> like the test image. >>>>> >>>>> ME Super and M 50mm f1.7 >>>>> >>>>> Comments welcome! >>>>> >>>>> Mark >> >> >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
