Who Be Ye Smokers? (Pipes, Sanity, and Moby Dick)

[admin]

Here's a nice change of pace from our usual articles.
This is a good one to light up a pipe, relax, read at a leisurely pace and contemplate with your pipe.
Thanks to guest writer, Professor Michael P. Foley.
Who Be Ye Smokers? (Pipes, Sanity, and Moby Dick)

 

[unclearthur]

That is a great read!

 

[bowhatchie]

Wow... having read Moby Dick several times... I still had not realized all the references to the hobby we all love so much!
Great read!

 

[romeowood]

Oddly enough I'd just packed my Chacom with some of Jack Sterling's Boston Whaler Crown & Anchor, then checked my email to see your update to the articles and headed over there to read it--a most serendipitous combination! Great article, and it's making me want to reread that old tome.

 

[yoru]

This new look on the great whale of a sleeping pill makes me give it some respect, though moreso in the writer of the essay for pointing it out and elucidating it to a more imperative and deliberate allegory than it may have been (it is undeniable many an allegory was only noted after publication of a work, and never by the author, though that may not be the case here).
Very enjoyable read.

 

[admin]

I'm pleased with how well this article went over.
I'll ask Michael if he wants to continue writing for us.
He submitted this about 6 months ago and I finally got to it.

 

[unclearthur]

Having been forced to read Moby Dick in HS and having hated it then I grabbed a copy a few years back and read it again. Dang how did it get so much better in only fifty years? I would love to see more connections to pipes in literature.

 

[buck67]

"Sunken ship commanded by real-life ‘Moby-Dick’ captain discovered"
I found this article on Yahoo this morning. It appears the boat was located somewhere off the coast of Hawaii.

 

[kashmir]

So now we know where nose warmer / chubby pipes came from. As a way of avoiding the stench during de-blubbering a whale carcass. Who would have thought?

 

[mso489]

Visited a whaling museum on Long Island earlier this summer, and one of the exhibits was a typical whaling

crew sea chest, and sure enough, right there on the top of the sparse items each man was allowed in limited

space was a tobacco pipe and cloth bag of tobacco.

 

[instymp]

I often think how bad he had it smoking his pipe without the benefit of us telling him how to do it, but never posted it because it because somebody wouldn't take it as intended, as a joke. Good read & movie.

 

[Perique]

Huge Moby Dick fan here. One of that small handful of books that I come back to regularly, every few years.

 

[hunterwold1]

Excellent article. Now I have to add Moby Dick into my reading rotation again...

 

[crazypipe]

Last part of the movie MOBY DICK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIK9TLAoAs&feature=share&list=TLWpCG_dz19Ns

 

[foggymountain]

Moby Dick is the Great American Novel. The only book to challenge it for that distinction is the novel Melville wrote after it, called Pierre, or The Ambiguities. Melville was considered insane after writing Pierre, and his career was over. It was really a 20th century novel from the 19th century. I have read Moby Dick several times. This is a good article.

 

[instymp]

Don't forget the movie either, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956_film)