I feel so much of this. Thank you for sharing your experiences as well as inspiration! Your blog/works always keep me on my toes and remind me to not just look at the past but also pay attention to so many incredible "current" creative things.
I read the Moby Dick cliff notes in 9th grade instead of the book. The teacher wrote "RIP" for my grade! But the book was too damn long and I could care less about that big white fish. I tried again a few years ago and only got about 30 pages in.
You got off easy, Earl! After repeated dunkings in Melville's oceanic tome, I emerged spouting all kinds of critical nonsense about America, Calvinism, revenge, and that tortured whale. But the years have placed it in perspective: Melville was in love with Hawthorne; Queequeg was the unsung hero/lover, whaling ships are hearses, and I feel sorry for the damned whale. And now I can toss the book.
I feel so much of this. Thank you for sharing your experiences as well as inspiration! Your blog/works always keep me on my toes and remind me to not just look at the past but also pay attention to so many incredible "current" creative things.
Thanks, Lindalay! I get a lot of inspiration from your newsletter, too! Learning to love my inner monsters . . .
I read the Moby Dick cliff notes in 9th grade instead of the book. The teacher wrote "RIP" for my grade! But the book was too damn long and I could care less about that big white fish. I tried again a few years ago and only got about 30 pages in.
You got off easy, Earl! After repeated dunkings in Melville's oceanic tome, I emerged spouting all kinds of critical nonsense about America, Calvinism, revenge, and that tortured whale. But the years have placed it in perspective: Melville was in love with Hawthorne; Queequeg was the unsung hero/lover, whaling ships are hearses, and I feel sorry for the damned whale. And now I can toss the book.