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College buddy was amused to

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:12:39 +0000

In reply to Off the west coast. The far

College buddy was amused to realize Ahab's journey covered a sinusoid, a full cycle, so yeah, waiting at the end, a busted boiler and a pool hall and a whole lot to chew on. "Coldest winter i spent was one summer in San Francisco", said Mark Twain, but it doesn't get any warmer up Anchorage way or the Aleutians or further into the circle. Brrrr...

Off the west coast. The far

Flavius — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 22:19:55 +0000

In reply to My, that's another shift of

Off the west coast. The far west -and north -one.

South around Cape Horn . Then then north of Alaska. and whale- Bowheads-

until ice forms on the anchor chain and start 7 months of cribbage and hoping

Gene can relight the main boilers for the spring catch....

Unless a thaw+gale decides otherwise

In which case beg a ride and be dropped off broke in San Francisco and open a pool

hall in Fairhaven.

My, that's another shift of

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 16:47:00 +0000

In reply to For me ,Melville mostly

My, that's another shift of eras. The winding down of whale boats off the east coast in the 1800s was pretty drastic, took all sorts of now obsolete expertise with it. But still, the sea... It's one thing to do away with coal mines and sweatshops, but life out on the open sea wasn't just drudgery.

As Edna St. Vincent Millay

moat — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 16:39:53 +0000

In reply to Sort of like Faulkner's dead

As Edna St. Vincent Millay would have it:

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is one damn thing over and over."

For me ,Melville mostly

Flavius — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 16:10:15 +0000

In reply to I lived in the Balkans - what

For me ,Melville mostly evokes "a dead whale or a stove boat". since my grandfather devoted his first

adventuresome years north of Alaska attempting to achieve the top half of the dichotomy before he had to shift to locating alternative transport when his ship failed to survive a spring thaw.

Compensation was purely based on cruise profits. No dead whales no limited enthusiastim for the return to the Cape

I lived in the Balkans - what

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 05:07:31 +0000

In reply to Sort of like Faulkner's dead

I lived in the Balkans - what some call "ghosts" others call grudges or a continuum.

Or then there's Melville - "all the things we thought we'd left behind were ahead of us the whole time"

Sort of like Faulkner's dead

Flavius — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 03:27:20 +0000

In reply to Why frame the matter in terms

Sort of like Faulkner's dead past .

I think his goal is to get

rmrd0000 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:20:11 +0000

In reply to It's 5 o'clock somewhere...

I think his goal is to upset me with his profanity laced rants

The mere fact that he uses profanity shows that he has no real argument

He also will use labels like "moron"

The tactic is not different than one would expect from Donald Trump

Blacks at VMI complained

The Commandant resigned and a controversial statue was removed

Now the complaint is that they did not solve nationwide voter suppression

It's 5 o'clock somewhere...

oldenGoldenDecoy — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:47:34 +0000

In reply to Uh, "i don't give a shit" is

It's 5 o'clock somewhere...

More unintelligible extremely disorganized narcissistic blog writing.

People get arrested for drinking and driving.

Too bad they don't for commenting

~OGD~

Why frame the matter in terms

moat — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:08:25 +0000

In reply to Lost causes

Why frame the matter in terms of the "Lost Cause"?

The "Lost Cause" narrative is not just a particular way to remember the past but an escape from responsibility.

The complete rejection of my form of life has nothing to do with my relationships with other people but is solely the product of geniuses who want me to feel bad and suffer.