John Irving - "If Ahab had a family, maybe he wouldn't have given a crap about the White Whale!"

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Uploaded by on May 13, 2011

Selected full forum videos are available at www.theforumchannel.tv. John Irving discusses dysfunction in literature, and touches on classic examples of REAL literary dysfunction and how classic novels would be unrecognizable without it, at The Connecticut Forum's "Forum Book Club" on Saturday, May 7, 2011, with authors Azar Nafisi and Jonathan Franzen and moderator Colin McEnroe. For more information, please visit our website at www.ctforum.org

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  • It's been a while since i read moby dick, but was it not mentioned that ahab DID in fact have a partner and child?

  • Therefore I love him!

  • Obviously this question is way over their heads. And another thing, your version of what the author was trying to get across is not necessarily what he was trying to get across. Its just your interpretation of it.

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