Thatababy by Paul Trap for September 03, 2016
September 02, 2016
September 04, 2016
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Letter: Dear Thatababy@thatababy.com, on occasion your characters visit a coffee shop called 'queequeg's.' what the?? Carlos O'Toole Noblesville, IN Thatababy: Thanks, Carlos! Queequeg's is a takeoff from the coffee chain Starbucks! Starbuck is from the novel 'Moby-Dick'- his shipmate was Queequeg, a tattooed warrior from the south pacific. It's a tip of the hat to those of you whose own personal white whale was having to read 'Moby Dick!!'
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard
Ishmael “Call me Ishmael”.
Captain Ahab “Crew, we will seek the white whale and kill it, because I am insane.”
Crew “Alas, your destructive obsession will be our undoing.” (They almost find the white whale. Then they almost find the white whale. Then they find it.)
Captain Ahab “I stab at thee. I stab at thee”. (Everybody dies except Ishmael, although this is no surprise, because it was foreshadowed CONTINUALLY from the BEGINNING.)
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