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...this just the siren call of escapism? Or is there more to it: a kind of primitive, vicarious therapy? Deep waters seem to lead naturally to deep thoughts, and there's something about gazing into the ocean that makes us look into ourselves. In Moby-Dick, Ishmael heads for the open ocean as a way of dealing with depression. "As everyone knows," Melville observes, "meditation and water are wedded forever." With those fluid thoughts in mind, here are eight of the best and briniest sea books of the summer...
...Moby-Dick, Ishmael happens on an albatross that one of his shipmates snared with a hook and line. "Through its inexpressible, strange eyes," he soliloquizes, "methought I peeped to secrets which took hold of God." Whatever those secrets are, most of us will have to learn about them secondhand. And maybe that's the appeal of the sea tale: it's the closest we will ever get to the riddle of the deep, a glimpse of a life--and, often, a death--we will never know. And who can blame us? There's nothing like a salty sea story...
...notable exceptions—are back to their old tricks. Do not be fooled by those pictures of Hamid Karzai posing with George Bush and Tony Blair. Everyone in Afghanistan knows that real power resides with people like Rashid Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek warlord who controls Mazar-i-Sharif; Ishmael Khan, ruler of Herat and recipient of Iranian tanks and money; and the exiled Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a religious fanatic who currently resides in Iran but who is rumored to be staging a comeback...
...Ishmael Reed Poet...
Grand Contested Election for the Presidency Of the United States Whaling Voyage by One Ishmael Bloody Battle in Affghanistan...