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Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:35 am
by lindad_amato
DWill wrote:Robert Tulip wrote:DWill wrote:New Bedford isn't in my native state of Connecticut
ouchiwawa. Thank you. Well at least Connecticut would be a connecting path, he pleads aimlessly? If I can share some personal history, in 1977 my father taught English at Yale University for a year, and we lived as a family in
Hamden for 8 months. It is a beautiful part of the world. We drove to Mystic, and I confess in the weakness of my memory I had mixed up Mystic with New Bedford, so I gratefully stand corrected. The cup of clam chowder I had for lunch in Mystic has grown in the recollection into one of the most fantabulous pieces of sustenance a human being could dream of.
Maybe the clam chowder would be for you like Proust's madeleine cake, if you were to have it again. My family lived on Long Island Sound, in Guilford, where my father was a veterinarian. I went to Hopkins Grammar School in New haven for a year in eighth grade, before we moved inland to Storrs, where Dad got a job teaching at UConn. I took several school field trips to Mystic Seaport and can still recall especially the smells of the place.
Coffin is an old New England name, as in William Sloane Coffin the 60's minister at Yale. New England clam chowder (or Mystic) is truly the best. Also, I'll take Guilford over New Bedford any day. My family, the Parmelees, settled it in the 1600s.
Thanks to both of you for your input. I'm thoroughly enjoying this reading.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:06 pm
by Penelope
Oh but Nantucket, Clam Chowder, New England.....all sounds so thrilling to my ears.
New England is the part of the US I would really most like to visit. Was it in the film 'Driving Miss Daisy'? I remember being entranced by the autumnal scenery. I hadn't imagined a bitterly cold night like the one described in Chapter 2. Now I know to bring my longjohns.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:38 pm
by lindad_amato
Driving Miss Daisy was supposed to have taken place in the South, but I don't know where it was filmed.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:45 pm
by Penelope
I'm rubbish at US Geography. I do a daily quiz on Facebook, called 'Are you as smart as a 5th Grader' and it is American so those Geography questions always let me down.
Still I have seen and heard a lot about Cape Cod and thereabouts. It looks amazing.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:55 pm
by lindad_amato
Penelope wrote:I'm rubbish at US Geography. I do a daily quiz on Facebook, called 'Are you as smart as a 5th Grader' and it is American so those Geography questions always let me down.
Still I have seen and heard a lot about Cape Cod and thereabouts. It looks amazing.
Yes, New Bedford would look much more like what you've seen of Cape Cod and Nantucket is off the coast.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:24 pm
by Saffron
lindad_amato wrote:Driving Miss Daisy was supposed to have taken place in the South, but I don't know where it was filmed.
Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia - the deep south for sure.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:47 am
by Penelope
Couldn't really be further away then, could I?
I remember there being a snow scene, at the daughter's house, which is why I wouldn't have associated it with the deep south.
Atlanta - that is always associated with 'Gone with the Wind' for me.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:53 am
by Robert Tulip
Penelope wrote:Couldn't really be further away then, could I?
And I thought Driving Miss Daisy was filmed in
Alice Springs.
Not so much a pod of whales as an anti-pod o dees.
Were there sperm whales in Driving Miss Daisy? At least the director came from the
real world.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:53 am
by Penelope
Robert Tulip wrote:
And I thought Driving Miss Daisy was filmed in Alice Springs.
No you didn't!!! You're just trying to make me feel better.
But, I have to admit, you are a clever clogs.
Re: Moby Dick Chapter 2. The Carpet-Bag
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:10 pm
by giselle
"So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself,
as I stood in the middle of a
dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the
gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the
south—wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to
lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire
the price, and don’t be too particular."
I really like these lines .. they paint such a clear picture yet with a strangely shifting point of view.
