tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post230381943640241817..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: a certain hardness and bakedness, a style of beauty rather peculiar and cactus-like - Melville's proseAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-77058321414563378122013-08-30T23:41:54.836-05:002013-08-30T23:41:54.836-05:00Yes, but less than in Moby-Dick. Some of the conv...Yes, but less than in <i>Moby-Dick</i>. Some of the conversatin' is made of more ordinary stuff. I guess not <i>that</i> ordinary, but less weird and original than 90% of <i>MD</i>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67869439106467954092013-08-30T17:18:00.162-05:002013-08-30T17:18:00.162-05:00Great prose by Melville, as I expected. That was w...Great prose by Melville, as I expected. That was what saved my reading experience of Moby Dick from being a complete failure.LMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538873868140070018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-59840987748399108242013-08-29T10:07:55.504-05:002013-08-29T10:07:55.504-05:00Don't know what? I must have gotten something...Don't know what? I must have gotten something wrong with my tone. These are goodies. The description of the miser and poor Goneril, those are a scream.<br /><br />I disagree so strongly with your last point that I am left disarmed.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-41904425711933652042013-08-29T10:01:28.935-05:002013-08-29T10:01:28.935-05:00I don't know, I find all the examples you quot...I don't know, I find all the examples you quote to be hilarious. In any case, Confidence man seems to me to be an ur-Lolita, written a century ahead of its time. Like that other confidence man, Quilty, Melville's adopts many personae to fool his victims. Another similarity is the ambiguous moral atmosphere of both novels and the highly ironic framing. But all of this is already common knowledge, no need to go into too much detail, except to point out how much better Melville's version is than Nabokov's.Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.com