HERMAN MELVILLE

[Doug MacIVER]

 

[BrotherBart]

Field and Stream

 

[johneh]

(broken image removed)
Two rainbow trout swim in a shallow stream above sunlit gravel.

 

[Doug MacIVER]

COME ON THEY ARE NOT MAMMALS. their they gill??????????? CURSE THE WHITE TROUT AND CATFISH.

 

[Mt Bob]

WE FISH by Herman Melville.

 

[Doug MacIVER]

WE FISH by Herman Melville.

OH GREAT . WHITE CAT FISH damn you damn you

 

[Doug MacIVER]

JOHNEH beckens from the shore , damn you white trout .

 

[BrotherBart]

I'll have whatever he is drinking.

 

[fossil]

I've probably seen a more useless thread here...but I can't remember just when it might have been.

 

[Warm_in_NH]

 

[Doug MacIVER]

I'll have whatever he is drinking.

never saw the white whale , sorry if it is so common? cepten the small arctic narwhal (broken image removed)

 

[begreen]

That's not a narwhal, they have a long spike on their noses and are black. It's a beluga whale. Belugas are white and common in Canadian waters. I read they just spotted one in the Taunton River which is unusual.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...unton-river/d9wBd02YobmaAUNHFo09DJ/story.html

 

[Mt Bob]

I understand now,beautiful.Reminds me of first time I saw a moose back in maine.Out here can't keep them out of yard.(might as well continue usless thread!)

 

[begreen]

The albino humpback whale like the one shown in the first picture is very rare though there are a lot of photos of it. It has been tracked since 1991 and is called Migaloo. There is another one spotted in 2011 that is being called Migaloo junior.

http://www.today.com/video/today/49211622#49211622
http://io9.com/these-rare-photos-of-migaloo-the-albino-humpback-whale-1294249311

 

[Bobbin]

Good thing the Japanese are still conducting "scientific research" to justify whaling. How much do you suppose some of that one would command at a high end restaurant dinner table? (what a cool lookin' rig he is, though!)

 

[Doug MacIVER]

vivid memories as a seven year old seeing the movie in '56. hated having to read the book years later. I mean geez I'd already watched the movie. always liked g.peck after seeing him in a scary movie for a 7 year old who was always on the water.

 

[Enzo's Dad]

call me Ishamail

 

[Bobbin]

Funny, "Moby Dick" was one of the very first of the "classics" that I actually really enjoyed! I liked Nathaniel Hawthorne's works very much, and I loved Ben. Franklin's works. With Melville I struggled at first; but then I began reading aloud to myself... all of a sudden the magic of the carefully chosen words "made sense". A narrative... meant to be read aloud! once I figured that out the story became "real" and exciting! It's a great book and if you apply the "narrative" notion to many "classics" you'll be "open" to the very nature of the writing. It's how I found delight in Dickens, too. And many others, as well.

 

[Adios Pantalones]