Word: ishmael
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...Ishmael's Loneliness...
...cure such ignorance, yet avoid charges of proselytizing, Warshaw developed a reading course, drawn from the King James Version, that stresses literary influence rather than theological interpretation. His students soon found a new dimension in Moby Dick's Ishmael or Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, learned the origin of a doubting Thomas, a Jonah or a Judas, and got the point of Handel's Messiah or Harry Belafonte's rocking Noah. On new tests, Warshaw's pupils pushed their grades to high levels, and a couple of students named Cohen and O'Connell got perfect...
...taught an unforgettable course on the American Romantics. To some students he himself looked like one of the grand Romantic figures he spoke of in the lectures, an Ahab at times, and even an Ishmael. Those brawling sentences, the brooding manner, the great, obscene chuckles whose delight it was impossible not to share, all were touched with something superhuman, something demonic. He lived intensely, self-destructively even. Those who loved him wanted him to take things easier, to save himself, to bank the fires; but with sorrow and awe we see that giants were not meant to live that...
...Never the Twain." Clem is not just a defeated bum, but what Dr. Fiedler likes to call "the questing lover, surrogate for the artist . . . projected as a pariah, an Ishmael." He is linked in a love-hate relation with his nonidentical twin Mark...
...Call me Ishmael* if you like, but this Protestant will vote for Kennedy. I would like to get the word around that one does not have to embrace the Catholic faith to vote for him. There are some who reject the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope but accept the doctrine of the infallibility of Ike without batting an eyelash...