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  1. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    So, as to what my work reveals: I'll try to explain it in brief. Understand however, that Melville himself knew it would be difficult to explain what he had done. In his famous review of Hawthorne, "Hawthorne and his Mosses" written during his composition of Moby-Dick, Melville writes: "No man...
  2. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    Sure. Much of the novel concerns things outside of narrative movement or progression such as what seem to be convoluted encyclopedic entries or historical exposition. Often, the narrative scenes are provided as a generalized overview of the goings-on about the deck with no particular narrative...
  3. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    Interestingly, the tricks Melville uses to hide his secret borrow heavily from perceived devices found by him in Hawthorne.
  4. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    This is great feedback. I have long been digesting the fear surrounding much of what you've said. My beta reader (credentialed, mentioned previously) also suggested moving to seek a PhD as a viable route. I've read a few books on nonfiction publishing, and recognize much of the advice, not to...
  5. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    What author is that? if you don't mind me asking. I have a little library of my own, been thinking about posting about it and some of the little gems.
  6. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    There is a lot of underlying torment in the book, I'd argue due to the great self-sacrifice required to write for a living and the fact that Melville's career was failing due to being misunderstood. The poignant, meditate moments in the novel are among the most potent in all works of literature...
  7. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    This is precisely it. I would argue that in the grander designs of the book, Ishmael is not his name. However, for the superficial reader, it is and must be.
  8. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    I think you miss the point. What I have responded to is not criticism, but schoolyard hijinks. Sandbox rules: don't dish if you can't take. Scenario: guy gets on friendly forum, post about the fruits of his labor, passion, interest. Is passively called without rationalization: pretentious...
  9. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    Thanks for the suggestion. Makes sense. It is wholly original, and solves like 90% of the conundrums surrounding the novel and author. My beta reader suggested the same. It is a reasonable option. Time will tell. Once all the kids are in school full time, I may do just that. Thanks. Out of...
  10. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    Holy Blood, Holy Grail is fun. My book is fun like that, but obviously a bit more tedious because it doesn't concern well known tales in religion. That's the relationship I try to make with pointing out its similarity to The Di Vinci Code.
  11. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    The pipe thing was clearly a joke. You're really pushing a slippery slope by suggesting such would be apology for Stalin. Just absurdism at its best. I suppose it's not common to celebrate authors or popular figures that puffed a pipe in this forum, huh? If you think Moby-Dick is a just story...
  12. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    Fair enough. This is a pretty well understood on my end. Of course, academics are going to skew towards their own biases. No one can avoid it. But, case in point: we've seen Alzheimers research these past forty years absolutely stunted by this sort of tendency. The powers that be wrongly focused...
  13. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    You should give it a go if you think you might be interested. Fourth grade is a little young. It's a thoughtful, funny, wise-ish sort of book. Is it difficult? Yes. Is it amazing? Yes.
  14. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think your advice is right on the money. Perhaps posting in a forum focused on a plesant vice isn't the best idea. I tend to give my fellow man too much credit. But sometimes, when one is so invested in something, they'll take advice anywhere they can get...
  15. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    Wow. Very thoughtful response. Nice dig. Guess being fully literate is pretentious now a days. I'll claim it. The founding fathers surely did. Go back to your movies.
  16. Yadkin1765

    Need Advice: Book About Moby-Dick - "Read it if You Can"

    This post maybe a bit hastily written, however long it turns out, as I've had a wee bit to drink, and am temporarily approaching my wit's end, so to speak. I've written a book. I'd like to think it's an important book. I've dedicated a literal score of years to researching for it, the last six...
  17. Yadkin1765

    Greetings from Montana Territory

    Warm winter howdy from Maine. I got kin, two nieces, grew up out in Hobson. Echo the sentiments of jealousy, beautiful country out there. Welcome.
  18. Yadkin1765

    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2023?***

    Outside relaxing in 12” of snow with some Bullseye Flake in a Stanwell Gilt Edged 54.
  19. Yadkin1765

    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2023?***

    Watching the snow accumulate on the coast of Maine. Just finished a bowl of St. Bruno's RR in a Kaywoodie Zulu (finally broken in with no hot spots). Eying some Stoved Red Virginia with a touch of added Cavendish OR some Newminster Superior Navy. Really craving a strong, rummy, plummy navy...
  20. Yadkin1765

    Pipe Myths

    Apologies. Hate to interject ;) Just finished reading a work arguing for de Vere Earl of Oxford as the likely author of the Shake-speare plays along with his secretaries and scribes. There really is little to no evidence that Will Shakspere of Stratford upon Avon wrote the plays (beyond a 19th...
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