the odd couple

[phosfate]

Reading Moby-Dick. Once I figured out that half the brick-sized Penguin edition is introduction, text notes, and commentary, it became much less daunting.

So far, in my head, the adventures of Ishmael and Queequeg is this weird-ass nautical sitcom starring Owen Wilson and Martian Manhunter.

ELIJAH: Fear my prophecy of DOOM! which I'm not going to elaborate but it's really DOOMY!
ISHMAEL: Queequeg, step away from the strange man. And use a toothpick, not your harpoon. You'll get rusty gums.
QUEEQUEG: These Romans Christians are crazy.
ISHMAEL: Let's have some more chowder and go to bed.
QUEEQUEG: Word.
ELIJAH: DOOOOOOOOOOM!

Comments

*sniffs ann*

[danakate.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, coffee.

Re: *sniffs ann*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I think it's in my hair.

Re: *sniffs ann*

[danakate.livejournal.com]

D'oh! At least it's not shit.

Re: *sniffs ann*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

If it were shit, they'd encourage me to go home and shower.

Re: *sniffs ann*

[danakate.livejournal.com]

You...have a point.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I think I much prefer your version to the one I read in American Lit.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

DOOOOOOOOOM!

[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

God, I like your version so much more. Plus, it's actually readable! You should bring out your own abridged classics library!! xxx

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I may not be reading it right, but I'm finding it funnier'n a drunk Hobbit. Ishmael really does say, in essence, "Step away from the strange man." And he's got this bland, wholesome, 'Whatever' thing going.

[tsamm.livejournal.com]

If you like it now, just wait 'till you get to the fifty-page description of cutting up a big dead whale and massaging the warm sperm.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I think if I'd had to read your version in HS, I'd have been a lot happier! :)

*Snorts*

[darqstar.livejournal.com]

You should be writing, "Classic literature for the new age!"

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I like it. Like, unironically and stuff. *sulks*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

DOOM!

(Dude, this book kicks ass!)

[sagralisse.livejournal.com]

Whales aren't fish, you know. ::nods wisely::

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::nods also::

Not with those big mofo blowholes they're not.

Call me Ishmael

[danakate.livejournal.com]

Read the first two chapters. Had to pee a couple times since Ishmael kept talking about the lure of water and water water water water water. Damn he's longwinded about water. Not to mention trying to draw pity because he missed the boat to Nantucket and had to find cheap lodgings because his shoes were dead. Or something. Haven't met anyone else, yet...perhaps I'll get to that tonight. Oh, wait, no, I have tkd so that's probably not going to happen.

Re: Call me Ishmael

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

o/~ Call me Ishmael
Salty young dog of the sea
Call me Ishmael
That's what my name is
And sailing my game is so
Call me Ishmael
And I will answer to thee
Not Zeke, Zachariah, Jose, Jedikiah
But Ishamel
That's me
Yo-ho!

Call him Ishmael
Salty young dog of the sea
Call him Ishmael
That's what his name is
And sailing his game is so
Call him Ishmael
And I he answer to thee
Not Zeke, Zachariah, Jose, Jedikiah
But Ishamel
That's he
Yo-ho! o/~