Crossing the Equator

We celebrated crossing the Equator today by dunking those who had never crossed into one of the swimming pools. I hid!

We had a wonderful presentation on "Moby Dick." Herman Melville wanted to write a novel about whaling, obsession with revenge
and truth. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced his writing style--one of the reasons the text is so dense. In fact he and Hawthorne were good friends. The book was not well received in England (where they left off the last chapter) or the US. It was not until the early 20th century when it achieved literary acclaim.
William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself and D H Lawrence called it one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world. I was never able to get past the first chapter.Read more