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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
If you Germans don't want Goethe, I would gladly trade you for Herman Melville. Talk about needlessly verbose, and such without point. By Moby Dick's seventh chapter we are all painfully aware that the whale is God. From that point, everything becomes filler.
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Can't agree, his other books may be rubbish, but the chapter in MD wher ethey kill the old and crippled sperm whale is IMHO the most powerfully written work in the english language (well, I wept salt tears).
And another thing...Shakeaspeare is bloody brill!
@Penelope Grey, Actually I was wondering where you were. Welcome back, now leave SHIII alone and study SP
Mike.