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Wednesday reading
Jan. 4th, 2023 01:42 pmNot much to report this week. I'm still reading Moby Dick; I'm on chapter 54 and, per the Kindle app, 31% of the way through the book. And I've just started the latest (2022) volume of Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow.
To compensate for this short report, I give you Melville on the subject of pirates feeling themselves superior to whalers:
So where's the OFMD fic where Stede & co (it would have to be pre-Ed, I think) encounter a bunch of grumpy whalers and are told off for their presumption?
Semi-relatedly, my Moby Dick/OFMD head-canon is that Queequeg is the great-great-great grandnephew of my Ed from "Also Known As Blackbeard," having inherited the family tendency to wander. And yes, he has been having an affectionate, loving, very very deep laugh at Ishmael's credulity about idols and such.
To compensate for this short report, I give you Melville on the subject of pirates feeling themselves superior to whalers:
[I]n the case of pirates, say, I should like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about it. It sometimes ends in an uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows. And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.
So where's the OFMD fic where Stede & co (it would have to be pre-Ed, I think) encounter a bunch of grumpy whalers and are told off for their presumption?
Semi-relatedly, my Moby Dick/OFMD head-canon is that Queequeg is the great-great-great grandnephew of my Ed from "Also Known As Blackbeard," having inherited the family tendency to wander. And yes, he has been having an affectionate, loving, very very deep laugh at Ishmael's credulity about idols and such.
