Ich habe gestern Rückmeldung auf mein #moby_dick Witzlein bekommen. Ich hab MD noch gelesen und fand es erschütternd. Ja, wir haben extrem viel Kacke gebaut und die Welt ist sozial, ökonomisch und ökologisch am Abgrund. Aber wir haben das #Ozonloch und den #Walfang in den Griff bekommen. Das ist nicht nichts. Ich glaube, Melville hat ohne es zu beabsichtigen einen großen Beitrag geleistet.
Lasst uns diesen Schwung nutzen.
#writerscoffeeclub Oct 16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?
I'm not sure. Terminology changes between #Steampunk and mainstream #SciFi. But a lot of it is easily transferable between works of what basically fall under one genre. And, in #Riders_of_the_Dream it is a mix. We have #Star_Trek, #Babylon_5, #Firefly, #20,000_League, even a bit of #Moby_Dick. Quite a mish-mash.
@sarahtaber Years ago, I inadvertently read what could be considered the 'true' inspiration for, "The Whale".
The book is "Typee: A Peak at Polynesian Life" (IIRC). In it is his account as a deserter who goes and winds up as the reluctant guest of a fierce, cabalistic tribe.
The story is his actual circumstances in jumping ship in a foreign (French) island port from a British ship (as an American sailor), and being him.
From there, #Moby_Dick, a fiction, begins to reveal the Genesis, it's birth and life, as a literary work of art.
Anyway, I don't much like spoilers so to me, looking back, I'm happy coz it seems the right order for me to have read them, but subjectively, only because I actually did so.
Another good read after your current selection might be The Old Man and the Sea.
Enjoy!
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