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From 2666, given us by a fictional founder of the Black Panther Party: [P]eople knew many different kinds of stars or thought they knew many different kinds of stars. He talked about the stars you see at night, say when … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Herman Melville
One drawing for every page of Moby Dick
Moby Dick‘s probably my favorite book. I waffle sometimes, bringing in The Confidence Man, or Blood Meridian, but when it comes down to what purely gets my juices flowing, what I keep re-reading, what makes my blood pump, it’s Moby … Continue reading
Daniel Boone
I’ve got a running theory about Herman Melville’s Confidence Man and American frontiersmen like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill, etc., that also feeds into Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. At it’s core, it’s not very complicated. It begins with a … Continue reading
John Smith, Pocahontas, and Cormac McCarthy
(The beginning of some notes on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian as promised here. ) This one takes a little patience, but one of the most fruitful ways to track the judge’s representation of Indians is tease out the historical representations of Indians … Continue reading
Dopey Dick: The Pink Whale
Also via the KR Blog.
Moby Dick
By Guy Ben-Ner, via the KR Blog. Part one: Part two:
The Voyage of the Pequod
Magnifiable map here. It is being shown in a Wattis Institute exhibition devoted to Moby Dick.
Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy
One of the smartest comments ever made about Cormac McCarthy, by Harold Bloom in a discussion about Blood Meridian (via Maud Newton): “He tends to carry his influences on the surface, quite honestly.” That’s about the long and the short … Continue reading
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Tagged Cormac McCarthy, Harold Bloom, Herman Melville, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Kerr, Waylon Jennings, William Faulkner
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Blood Meridian discussion
Via Maud Newton, there’s a discussion going at the A.V. Club about Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian that I keep thinking I might jump into, but I probably won’t. Once upon a time, I taught a class about the representation of … Continue reading
The Mystic massacre
I missed this, but last week was the anniversary of the first extermination campaign launched by Puritans. On May 26, 1637, New Hampshire founder John Mason, professional mercenary John Underhill, 90 Puritans, and 70 Narragansett and Mohegan allies, advanced on … Continue reading
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Tagged Francis Jennings, Herman Melville, Jean Baudrillard, John Mason, John Underhill, John Winthrop, William Bradford
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