Post by thread:[EE]:: Moby Dick as cosmological metaphor

In this free 130 odd page web book this author examines and dismisses most cosmological theories, proposes his own point of view and concludes we all may know nothing much about anything. The whole thing uses the tale of Moby Dick as a metaphor for the obsessive search for cosmological fulfilment and the pointlessness and obsession of following what may prove to be a phantasm and what will quite possibly prove fatal to all. To see how well the metaphor fits you'll have to read this (and possibly Moby Dick as well!). As MD was written very much tongue in cheek and experimentally by Melville the metaphor may be even more apt than he intends. http://www.empyreanquest.com/repulse.htm Worth at least a skim Russell

On 3/6/07, Russell McMahon <spam_OUTapptechTakeThisOuTparadise.net.nz> wrote: > In this free 130 odd page web book this author examines and dismisses > most cosmological theories, proposes his own point of view and > concludes we all may know nothing much about anything. > > The whole thing uses the tale of Moby Dick as a metaphor for the > obsessive search for cosmological fulfilment and the pointlessness and > obsession of following what may prove to be a phantasm and what will > quite possibly prove fatal to all. To see how well the metaphor fits > you'll have to read this (and possibly Moby Dick as well!). As MD was > written very much tongue in cheek and experimentally by Melville the > metaphor may be even more apt than he intends. > > http://www.empyreanquest.com/repulse.htm > > > Worth at least a skim > "What do you think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small drop of something queer about that, eh? http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en028600 A white whale--did ye mark that, man? (Now we're back on topic.) -- You think that it is a secret, but it never has been one. - fortune cookie

> "What do you think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small drop > of something queer about that, eh? Wooooh, Dark Side Of The Rainbow http://www.answers.com/topic/dark-side-of-the-rainbow "like to watch old movies while listening to Hotel California to see if it synchs up in a significant way. And so far, no. Nothing has." Apparently Moby Dick killed my great-great-great-uncle. But so many diseases were fatal back then......