> I'm sure you can continue to find reasons to hate me :)
> But you could like me just as easily.
Nope I could not. You have to be putting people on...
Herman Melville's
> Moby Dick is about the whale and Gipeto,
No, Pinnochio is about a Whale and Gipeto.... Moby Dick is about a whale and Capt. Ahab. However The Confidence Man by Melville, which is what was being referenced, is not about a whale at all... nor about death.
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.)
>
>
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> >
> > 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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