My Collected Tweets on Moby Dick
Read Moby-Dick in the second half of 2009 and tweeted as I went. Blogged about the experience here and my collected tweets are below in reverse order:
Playing w WordPress: New blog, theme, widgets. Tried 2 connect 2 FB profile: Moby-Dick Book v Kindle http://tinyurl.com/yzflm2r 12:10 PM Dec 23rd, 2009 via TweetDeck
“the odorous cedar chips of the wrecks danced round and round, like grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch” #MobyDick #Melville 9:32 AM Oct 31st, 2009 via TweetDeck
“And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” I thought last 3 chapters & Epilogue would take longest. We gulped em in bed this am #MobyDick 9:30 AM Oct 31st, 2009 via TweetDeck
Read a review on Moby Dick that said Herman Melville should have spent less time on all that whale stuff. Bwa ha hahahahahaha 9:23 PM Oct 5th, 2009 via BeTwittered
Though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence -Melville, Moby D 6:56 AM Sep 29th, 2009 via TweetDeck
“…there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick Ch 87 11:29 PM Sep 17th, 2009 via TweetDeck
Kindle and Whispersync…why oh why doesn’t it work with my physical book (Moby Dick)? I find myself missing my instant dictionary access. 9:31 PM Aug 18th, 2009 via TweetDeck
Help! Need clip of Michael Palin as Miles Cowperthwaite on SNL so son will know y I say each chapter of Moby Disk is: I Am Nailed 2 the Hull 10:28 PM Aug 1st, 2009 via TweetDeck
..in a whaler wonders soon wane. -Moby Dick #quote 10:09 PM Aug 1st, 2009 via BeTwittered
101 books recommended 4 college-bound kids http://bit.ly/eOFpn ok some read IN college; reading moby dick now. 10 year old has about 4 done 8:39 PM Jul 19th, 2009 via TweetDeck
You read about “scuttle-butt” in Moby Dick. You look it up in Wikipedia. http://tr.im/sJAv You have been schooled. It’s why I read. 10:38 PM Jul 16th, 2009 via TweetDeck
…for immortality is but ubiquity in time… #quote Melville. Moby Dick 11:09 PM Jul 3rd, 2009 via TweetDeck
Leviathan is not the biggest fish; I’ve heard tell of the Kraken. As recalled from intro to Moby Dick at coffee shop 11:06 AM Jul 3rd, 2009 via BeTwittered
God keep me from ever completing anything. . . . Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! H.Melville “Moby Dick” #quote 3:58 PM Jun 19th, 2009 via TweetDeck
Oh no he DIDN’T! Compare the Earl of Leicester to a Narwhale in a naughty way. Herman Melville, Moby Dick #books Scandalous! 3:27 PM Jun 19th, 2009 via TweetDeck
We are on Chapter 15 of Moby Dick, entitled, I believe, “I Am Nailed to the Hull” or something like that. Seriously, Herman Melville=Fun-E 8:45 AM Jun 5th, 2009 via TweetDeck
Lots of sea poems at http://tinyurl.com/nmnnqn And a great sea song is “Mingulay Boat Song” on Rogue’s Gallery CD sung by Richard Thompson. 8:23 PM Jun 1st, 2009 via web
Maybe I was thinking of this one: I must go down to the sea again by John Masefield #poetry http://tinyurl.com/kjf2os 8:20 PM Jun 1st, 2009 via web
Bwa ha! Tried to type Moby Dick and it came out Moby Disk…what would that be? A very LARGE (white) hard drive? DVD? 8:18 PM Jun 1st, 2009 via web
Reading Moby Dick, Trying to remember poem about “go down to the sea in ships” Found it was Psalm 107:23-30, KJV http://tinyurl.com/lsmqay 8:17 PM Jun 1st, 2009 via web
