For a couple of years now I have really wanted to attend the Red May socialist festival in Seattle, but sadly the timing (and the physical distance) have gotten in the way. This year, because of ...
https://thegamming.org/2020/04/27/interview-with-philip-wohlstetter/
9 February 2015 20.00 “Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see.” Herman...
https://thegamming.org/2015/02/26/a-bunch-of-lonesome-heroes-the-factory-at-sea/
6 February 2015 “For a ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.” (Melville, White-Jacket – did Conrad plagiarise Melville as...
https://thegamming.org/2015/02/21/marsaxlokk-jabal-ali-besotted-with-the-sea/
How will I ever be able to return to life, “circumspect life” in Melville’s words, after that, the “delirious throb” of this research adventure? In his gorgeous opening to Moby Dick, Me...
https://thegamming.org/2015/02/18/marsaxlokk-jabal-ali-surmises/
At Melville’s Tomb By Hart Crane Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he watched, Beat on the dusty shore ...
Do you remember that haunting Conrad quotation from Heart of Darkness that says “The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or ...
https://thegamming.org/2014/05/26/a-seaman-in-exile-from-the-sea/
From Melville’s Billy Budd: …war contractors, whose gains, honest or otherwise, are in every land an anticipated portion of the harvest of death…. And he is the inventor of “fog of war”...
https://thegamming.org/2014/03/21/truth-uncompromisingly-told-will-always-have-its-ragged-edges/
Before starting any project, I like to self-saturate with novels about a subject. It is one of the greatest pleasures of learning something entirely new, and it is a way to get a sense of the ...
https://thegamming.org/2014/03/17/it-is-not-down-in-any-map-true-places-never-are/