Moby Dick

This will be a very short and unusual posting, a hommage to my shrink who is a very patient an optimistic person, unlike myself. I doubt that there are many people now who actually read Moby Dick, that amazing book the size of a big brick. At the time I was forced to read it all (no summaries) I wondered why would anybody chose that big of a book, I wondered what the point was, the same could be written in about one fourth of the size. I doubt I would be able to read it now, when screens take most of the time. Anyway, at the time I wrote something about one of the chapters and I gave my deepest thoughts about the eternal circling of the Pequod and Ahab searching for Moby Dick, the illusive yet threatning whale that could never be captured. Unlike the powerful Moby Dick, my whale of a problem is an immense whale, slow and dying, that nobody really wants to catch anymore. And here it is, a small posting for my brave shrink and a remembrance to my literary good ole times.

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And some comments:
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'Christopher' posted on the Tue 21 Nov 2006, 3:21 pm
I was glad to see that I'm not the only blog-city resident to invoke this book of late.
http://cfaille.blog-city.com/call_me_ishmael__why_is_that_a_great_opening.htm

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'A visitor' posted on the Tue 4 Jul 2006, 7:56 pm
As a young girl, I was a geek (still am a geek) but I was convinced Moby Dick was boring, until I realized the classic Trek episode with Kirk and the Commodore chasing the planet killer was essentially the same story...somehow the geekery in that got me through the book...
Melville had some valid points to make about obsession, I guess, but he could have done it in half the words.

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'kevin g' posted on the Fri 26 May 2006, 8:23 pm
Don't know what your problem (whale of a) is, but I'm sure talking with your therapist is a good idea, right? I never finished Moby Dick, and am not in a rush to pick it back up, however, some problems that we face are elusive, and often take the insight of an "outsider" to really observe what's going on. We're all dealing with something, whether an elusive white whale, addictions, self-hate, disappointment, and the lack of love, but you have to keep moving, because if you settle, you'll never get to the heart of the problem. Just a thought.