Word: queequeg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boldly led his readers down whirlpools of the national subconscious. In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), he argued that the country's literature was obsessed with death and therefore incapable of developing mature heterosexual themes. Such matey relationships as Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook, Ishmael and Queequeg and Huck Finn and Jim, said Fiedler, were bonded by an innocent and idealized homosexual sentiment. He never said these heroes were homosexuals, though he did use "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" as the titillating title of his essay...
...initial purpose of the club--becoming the best rod wielders since Queequeg and Tashtego--Thomson says, "We're appealing to those who feel that they have time for fly-fishing. We don't feel obliged to teach unless you have a real commitment...
Nothing works - not a hokey assignation between Brody's wife and a predatory ichthyologist, and especially not an eat-'em-up ending that lacks only Queequeg's coffin to resemble a bath tub version of Moby-Dick...