The Fate of Moby Dick
I missed a lecture on Melville the other day, but I was reminded that, a few years back, I happened to read a children's version of Moby Dick -- God knows why.
And I was shocked.
The book declared that Moby Dick had been killed in the encounter with the Pequod. A glaring, unpardonable mistake, I thought.
I went back to the original.
The whale was... "stricken."
Apparently the children's book was not totally misguided.
And I was shocked.
The book declared that Moby Dick had been killed in the encounter with the Pequod. A glaring, unpardonable mistake, I thought.
I went back to the original.
The whale was... "stricken."
Apparently the children's book was not totally misguided.
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