Comments on: Barnacles https://livingwithscleroderma.com/barnacles/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:48:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/barnacles/#comment-1424 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:48:41 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=1855#comment-1424 In reply to Pat Bizzell.

I was actually wondering if Ishmael is his real name or a nom-de-plume for the character. Interesting, He is, of course, one seemingly outcast from society, or, at least, unable to participate in a community of landlubbers.

]]> By: Pat Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/barnacles/#comment-1422 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:11:44 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=1855#comment-1422 Love to see a shout-out to Melville, one of my favorite authors. Moby-Dick is such a big sprawling book, you can find almost anything in it. Many Biblical references, like the name given to the protagonist (we never learn his real name). Thanks for evoking the sea for me today, Ev.

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