Wed, 16 Jul 2008

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The Heaven Tree Trilogy and Moby-Dick

Edith Pargeter, a.k.a. Ellis Peters, author of the Brother Cadfael series, on her The Heaven Tree Trilogy "the best thing I have done. The best piece of writing, the story best worth telling, the characters most formidably alive, the theme best worth pursuing to the end: The work that came nearest what I wanted it to be."

Meanwhile, I'm engrossed in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and the great good humor therein. See, for example, this delightful bit of damnation:

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey

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