07-May-2008, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Extravoice
I know this thread is about movies, but someone should have told Herman Melville about this when he was writing Moby Dick. Good story, but I spent several chapters wondering what they had to do with the plot. Maybe I just missed a few metaphors or something.
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That was in the days before editors required to follow deadlines and force books into optimal sizes for selling. If Melville wrote Moby Dick today, the publisher would hack it to pieces.
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