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[polly_mer]

I dunno, Clive Barker as filmed by Truffaut would have a certain...well, you know the rest.  No?

Si.  I might pay good folding money rates to see that done, particularly Imagica.

I need to use the word "baleen" in a sentence today.  I mean, out in public.

What?  We're not public enough for ya?

See, if you were hip to all that is performance studies, you'd understand that sometimes, you just need to act it out, vocalize it, I mean in and with the body, in real time.  The Fora only go so far.

Well, I am becoming more hip to performance studies since the Performing Arts Center on my nice new campus is right next to the science building.  After I get my timing exactly right for the 3/5 compromise (that last flip is giving me problems), we can do a duet with baleen.

[scampster]

I need to use the word "baleen" in a sentence today.  I mean, out in public.

I had a whole conversation about the baleen over the weekend. Unfortunately, it was actually in the context of a conversation about whales, so really that isn't too exciting. But was what exciting was how many different ways high school students can spell "baleen."

[barred_owl]

Very first day of Ph.D. school--"odd-duck"-type prof in my department is strolling down the hall with a very large piece of baleen in hand, getting funny looks from some, but stopping to introduce him/herself to several of us newbies gathered by the department office door.  When prof asked us if we knew what the object was, I was the only one who knew--in a zoology dept, no less.

Now, referring back to belowtheradar's post a couple of pages back:  Were you thinking of the beluga whale, BTR?

Keep in mind, all, that provoking a white whale is done at your peril.  Should you engage in such activity, you will be subjected to this particular punishment, looping endlessly inside your head.  Ahab got a better deal.

[yellowtractor]

Keep in mind, all, that provoking a white whale is done at your peril.  Should you engage in such activity, you will be subjected to this particular punishment, looping endlessly inside your head.  Ahab got a better deal.

Are these the very worst song lyrics, ever??




Wow.

[galactic_hedgehog]

I need to use the word "baleen" in a sentence today.  I mean, out in public.

I had a whole conversation about the baleen over the weekend. Unfortunately, it was actually in the context of a conversation about whales, so really that isn't too exciting. But was what exciting was how many different ways high school students can spell "baleen."

I think more of my students should be ballen out of my classes.

[barred_owl]

Keep in mind, all, that provoking a white whale is done at your peril.  Should you engage in such activity, you will be subjected to this particular punishment, looping endlessly inside your head.  Ahab got a better deal.

Are these the very worst song lyrics, ever??




Wow.

Yes.  Punishment verging on torture, not to mention the rather inaccurate biology they contain.

[kedves]

I agree with Aandsdean (as one must).

If you want to sleep, try Clarissa.  Moby Dick--or the Big Mobe, as we called him when I was a child, raised by feral farm machinery--is hilarious.  The more you read, the more you realize just how unspeakably strange it is.

I don't think it's boring, or overlong.  But it is full of hypnotic, even dreamlike, description.  I have read many books much more difficult to complete (some of which remain uncompleted), but none during which I fell asleep so often.  Of course, I was reading it at the end of long winter's days in high school, the school day followed by practice followed by an hour bus ride home and a half-mile walk up the lane, then dinner, then reading by the woodstove in a very warm room, everyone nestled into the only warm room in the house.  So the combination of book, reader, and reader-spot influenced the tendency of eyelids to close.

I was thinking about The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin during the Jimi Hendrix discussion, but none of that is whale related.

Huh.  Say more?

You don't need to like someone or the work they produced to understand their work and its significance.

[yellowtractor]

I agree with Aandsdean (as one must).

If you want to sleep, try Clarissa.  Moby Dick--or the Big Mobe, as we called him when I was a child, raised by feral farm machinery--is hilarious.  The more you read, the more you realize just how unspeakably strange it is.

I don't think it's boring, or overlong.  But it is full of hypnotic, even dreamlike, description.  I have read many books much more difficult to complete (some of which remain uncompleted), but none during which I fell asleep so often.  Of course, I was reading it at the end of long winter's days in high school, the school day followed by practice followed by an hour bus ride home and a half-mile walk up the lane, then dinner, then reading by the woodstove in a very warm room, everyone nestled into the only warm room in the house.  So the combination of book, reader, and reader-spot influenced the tendency of eyelids to close.

Oh, that.  That's not "sleeping," Kedves.  It's a different form of reading.

It's part of what makes Moby-Dick so remarkable.  Melville keeps talking to you, across the abysm of the consciousness.

[madhatter]

Whatever else it is, it is the most soporific of the great novels.  If you were reading Moby Dick, you would be asleep by now.

What? No love for Crime and Punizzzzz...?

Way to make axe-murder boring, dude.