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...human race-swears off mankind. Melville's nausea ran so deep that he did not write another novel for 32 years. In the end he did make his peace with the universe, a serene and affirmative one, in the classic pages of his final masterpiece, Billy Budd...
...drink from it, passed it to his companions, and then introduced himself as a movie producer in town to make a Cinemascope short on the Carnival. The redhead, he said, was named Charlotte. Gardner, and the other man--the one just now taking a drink form the flask--was Budd Schulberg...
...flask-owner was momentarily startled, but managed to stutter: "Are you the Budd Schulberg?" He managed to stutter it four or five times, in fact, before he was satisfied that the man who had just drunk form his flask was Budd Schulberg, had indeed written The Disenchanted and On the Waterfront, was currently planning tow rite a story on the Carnival for Sports Illustrated, and had dropped in to visit his old fraternity...
...smile disappeared, however, when be found the flask empty. "Hell, Budd, we've got some back at the Inn," said the movie producer at this point. "Let's get out of here...
...keep predatory birds about the house are perhaps a bit too special to care much about. However, the reader will also sense that in all six stories something more important than bears, hawks and overcoats is being talked about. His feelings may focus on the sea story, Billy Budd. If he has seen the film The Caine Mutiny and read the novel, he may become aware that both stories are about the same sort of thing, but that Billy is a tragedy while The Caine Mutiny is a tempest in a large and interesting teapot. Billy Budd carries echoes...