Today, I have nothing. I haven’t picked up the whale since last Sunday. I had plans to catch up on my reading on my days off, but I forgot to take into account the fact that we spent yesterday at my mom’s celebrating Christmas, and today, I’m at work. Luckily, next weekend will be a four day weekend, so I’ll have time then to get caught up.
In the meantime, Billy has a few things he’d like to say:
My name is softdrink. Or fizzybeverage. If you're feeling formal, you can call me Jill. But if you hang out long enough, you'll discover I'm not all that formal.
I live on the Central Coast of California with my boyfriend of 18 years (yes, that makes me feel old and no, we're not getting married), hamburger. Get it...hamburger and softdrink? Aw, come on, admit it, you have a cutesy name, too.
My favorite things are books and travel. So that is mostly what I write about. The rest of it is just crap.
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
Not sure what Melville has to do with goats but your remark hits the spot because today they’ve started eliminating (yes, eliminating) goats in Holland because of Q-Fever
( The government was a bit late (*cough*) with taking precautions.
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One of the characters makes a reference to eating a goat whole, horns and all. It traumatized poor Billy. Billy is also glad he doesn’t live in Holland!
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LOL That’s awesome!
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Billy’s just been waiting patiently for an opportunity to show off his picket signs.
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lmao
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Billy says it’s no laughing matter.
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Billy shouldn’t take it personally, but it sure does make for a funny post and pic. Your copy of Moby looks quite daunting. Mine doesn’t look nearly as dense but I checked and it’s not abridged or anything. That would be a hoot. I read the abridged and you all read the full version. In my dreams.
Ti´s last blog ..Moby Dick Monday: December 21, 2009 (Week 6)
Goats are very sensitive…and they have long memories.
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LOL My copy isn’t nearly as big as yours, but like Ti I checked and it’s not abridged. You must have a lot of notes on the text and essays and stuff!
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Mine’s 623 pages, and other than a foreword there aren’t any notes…I don’t know why it looks so daunting.
Billy, Millie and I want you to know that we are very proud of you for finding your political voice and making such excellent picket signs. We are against eating goats (and basset hounds, but we haven’t read a description of that anywhere yet, thank goodness), and we hope you’ll continue to bring issues like this to the world’s attention.
Also, we recommend that you do not watch The Alaska Experiment, as some nasty things happen to goats on that show.
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Billy tries to stay on top of important issues. Especially the benefits of vegetarianism…for both humans and goats.
: )
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You tell ‘em, Billy! Melville was obviously very insensitive to the needs of goats.
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I’m with the goat.
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Poor Billy — At least Millie knows all about Billy’s feelings….
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