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Moby Dick


 

I just searched for Moby Dick movies, and Amazon Prime has a few versions of the movie. 

1. 1998 version with Patrick Stewart.

2. 2010 one has William Hurt, with 3 episodes. Also on YouTube in one shot

3. 1956 version by John Houston

Here is a list of all the adaptations.

Many nights I fall asleep to Moby-Dick. There's an excellent reading on Librivox, which is free.

I took a class in college, and I read Redburn, which is another awesome nautical novel by Herman Melville. Later I read Moby-Dick. I need to reread it. Reading his bio, I'd like to read White Jacket. Seems like he had an up and down career, wasn't appreciated, took a job and wrote poetry. 

Last night I got the idea. The white whale is Jesus, just like unicorn is Jesus. A unique animal is Jesus. The white whale took Ahab's leg; The problem of evil.  Ahab is going to solve the problem of evil by killing Moby-Dick, killing god. Not sure if that lines up. 

From the Wikipedia page of Moby-Dick: "Matthiessen finds debts to Shakespeare, whether hard or easy to recognize, on almost every page."

I just finished reading through Shakespeare after 26 months and 11 days. Quite a journey.

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