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I started listening to an audio recording of Moby-Dick, as read by an old style radio DJ, and it's actually fantastic. Melville's lengthy sentences and weird digressions are a perfect fit for the rhythmns of free form radio.
I started listening to an audio recording of Moby-Dick, as read by an old style radio DJ, and it's actually fantastic. Melville's lengthy sentences and weird digressions are a perfect fit for the rhythmns of free form radio.
[dj herman comes on at 2 am, talks at length about the latest whale news, starts describing a childhood memory, and puts on a tom waits record before returning with a small story about the cabin boy aboard a ship he once crewed]