I'm sure you can continue to find reasons to hate me :) But you could like me just as easily. Herman Melville's Moby Dick is about the whale and Gipeto, a presumed death with the continuance of life, which took all the dimensions of every emotion and every permutation of issues concerning life, hope, and second chances. A Mississippi riverboat has a thing or two in thematic common in Jim's universe, which you'd be angry if I tried to explain. But, there is connection, between those two and the piece "Graveyard Shift". Even if in the most literal sense, a graveyard deals with what, but graves (one of the surnames in Jim's genealogy, I have learned, which could be a double entrendre given up by fate in a sense.)
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> unless Jim's work as a whole was to be viewed as
> > one cohesive piece which is meant to be taken together.
Yes, I do believe that Jim's works are particles of one whole.
I
> > think that would be an incredible stretch of the
> > definition of LietMotif, tho.
Perhaps, but that is the artistic domain.
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> I agree. I see no theme behind i.e. using the same tune of
> "Edging Into Darkness" for "The Graveyard Shift". What
> does Batman have to do with Herman Melville and a
> Mississippi riverboat? Nothing.
Maybe Batman as a comic character has nothing to do with those, but I think that study of Jim's works could yield to the understanding that he does not mold to the story, but makes the story mold to his own vision.
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