Matthew Francis wrote:
You seem to have missed all the comedy, all the ironies,
all the
> epistemological agonizing.
Yep
Its a comedy? Why wasnt I told! Read as completely serious
to me, but then I never get American humour anyway (with the
odd exception - like South PArk)
It's not a defence of whaling, or an adventure
> story, still less an uplifting moral tract (though it plays at being all of
> those things and more). Surely, even if you don't like the book, you can see
> that what he's doing is at least incredibly complex.
No, just a jumbled mess. It _was_ a first reading, and it
was undirected by any prompting or explanation of what I was
to look for. I just called it as I read it - the unsupported
text and soley the text.
The style, the tone,
> the angle of approach, changes with practically every chapter.
Was this deliberate? *grin*
But thanks
> for the provocation -should get things moving a bit.
Yeah, well you were all starting to get serious about that
_other_ topic - so I thought I'd create a diversion...
Josephine
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