~
~ ~ ~
two hundred tons of blank immensity immobile and alone
~ ~ ~
~
Note: The reason these things are labeled “versions” is that they are all instantiations of the original Urmobystich or Moby-Archistich. To wit -- from the chapter called "The Town-Ho's Story" (and no, "Town-Ho" does not mean what you think it means; it's the name of a ship):
In the spirit of Minimalism, we would not wish to devote more than one single monostich to the subject of Moby Dick; he himself would wish it no otherwise. In the ideal Mobystich Acquisition Device, there exists but a single monostich; yet by Symmetry Breaking, this gets framed differently on different days. These are, you might say, contextually conditioned mobyphones deriving from a single basic monosticheme.
[For the pronunciation of that last, $500 word, click here:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/11/orthoepy-of-monostich.html
Once you have mastered it, simply walk into any singles bar
(provided you are single; offer void where prohibited)
and utter those plangent syllables.
Never again need you spend the night alone. ]
Bonus: Meta-Urmobystich.
Melville himself penned such another, in one of his poems about the Civil War:
On this, Alfred Kazin comments (in An American Procession, 1984): It certainly breaks up the evening labor wreathed in cigar smoke; Melville is full of wonderful lines."
Uber-bonus: For our earlier mobystichs, try these:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/moby-dick-monostich.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/moby-monostich-take-two.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-3.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-4.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-5.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-7.html
~ the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass ~
In the spirit of Minimalism, we would not wish to devote more than one single monostich to the subject of Moby Dick; he himself would wish it no otherwise. In the ideal Mobystich Acquisition Device, there exists but a single monostich; yet by Symmetry Breaking, this gets framed differently on different days. These are, you might say, contextually conditioned mobyphones deriving from a single basic monosticheme.
[For the pronunciation of that last, $500 word, click here:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/11/orthoepy-of-monostich.html
Once you have mastered it, simply walk into any singles bar
(provided you are single; offer void where prohibited)
and utter those plangent syllables.
Never again need you spend the night alone. ]
Bonus: Meta-Urmobystich.
Melville himself penned such another, in one of his poems about the Civil War:
The shark glides white
through the phosporus sea
On this, Alfred Kazin comments (in An American Procession, 1984): It certainly breaks up the evening labor wreathed in cigar smoke; Melville is full of wonderful lines."
Uber-bonus: For our earlier mobystichs, try these:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/moby-dick-monostich.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/moby-monostich-take-two.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-3.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-4.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-5.html
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/mobystich-v-7.html
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