November 02, 2007
From a conversation I had the other day with my collaborator L. about which book a character in something we're writing should be reading:
L.: Ooh, what about Moby-Dick?
FAUSTUS: That's perfect!
L.: Hmm. Except that relentless obsession doesn't really have that much to do with what we're writing about.
FAUSTUS: I wouldn't say Moby-Dick is exactly about relentless obsession.
L.: What would you say it's about?
FAUSTUS: I think it's about prioritizing badly.
Posted by Faustus, MD at 10:13 AM
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1) Jeff said (on 11/ 2/07 at 04:04 PM):
And then you and E.S. had sex.
(Sorry... it's a habit at this point.)
2) Paul said (on 11/ 3/07 at 08:23 PM):
Relentless Obsession? How about Wuthering Heights then?
3) lee said (on 11/ 6/07 at 03:17 AM):
I am stunned. I just realized that the previous web page reads "1 entries" for November. Faustus, how can you be associated with something so ungrammatical?
4) initials said (on 11/ 6/07 at 11:36 AM):
Everyone knows why gay men are into Melville... Sailors, 'The Bishop,' an unending compulsion to collect white objects... I haven't the foggiest regarding Herman's sexuality, but believe based upon the aforementioned data that the man was a queer prophet. Read, screw and be merry!
5) Faustus, M.D. said (on 11/ 6/07 at 02:52 PM):
Jeff: You are not wrong.
Paul: Or me in ninth grade. My friend D.E. was very, very attractive.
lee: I'm choosing to interpret "1" as a substitute for "one" and "entries" as a verb (stress on the second syllable). I don't know what "to entry" means, but at least the grammar is civilized.
initials: I think I prefer your last line to the Skeptics' version.
initials:
6) initials said (on 11/ 7/07 at 12:24 PM):
If painting Herman Melville as an effective (if primitive,) dealer in literary rough trade is wrong, I don't want to be right.
7) bob said (on 11/14/07 at 10:56 AM):
I thought you might be amused to know that this entry triggered the site blocker at the law firm I work for. "faustus goes to an orgy" "faustus is in a pronographic movie"-- nothing. But mention the words Gay and Moby-Dick? You're outta here! (or maybe it was the reference to melville)
8) goblinbox said (on 11/16/07 at 08:06 PM):
You're still funny.
9) kieran said (on 11/25/07 at 07:17 AM):
Faustus, where are you...
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