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Amy - 2008-09-14 19:55:48
Yeah, I've been trying to write about it all day but keep deleting my posts. Very bummed out.
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Philip - 2008-09-14 23:29:46
Last night I observed DFW's passing by reconsidering the lobster.
http://www.lobsterlib.com/feat/davidwallace/page/lobsterarticle.pdf
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chris - 2008-09-15 00:39:03
Guess he had infinite stress. The lobster article is one of my all time favs....
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Bob - 2008-09-15 04:05:27
I find the lobster article phenomenon shocking. That it had not fully occurred to readers that keeping a fish out of water is any different (except for everything that is so different) than keeping a human underwater, or that a spiny lobster might find it more unpleasant to have its tail twisted off than a Maine lobster finds being boiled alive just seems so out of touch with the outdoor world to me. If I didn't have bad associations with boiling water, which presumably a lobster does not, and could chose how to go, I think I'd go with being submerged in boiling water to being submerged in lukewarm water (or being put in a cooler if a fish) every time. And I think I'd rather take my chances, if I were a Brook Trout in the Appalachians, on possibly being caught by someone who wants to preserve my species in the wild in part for recreational reasons than I would on the chance that PETA would ever do anything that saved my habitat. I can't help thinking that Carter's dog on "Spin City" was as worthy of consideration as that article.
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Land-of-creeps Bob - 2008-09-15 05:55:20
That should probably read "[over] being submerged", 'til drowned, "in lukewarm water". And, I can't say for certain that it isn't all a slippery slope of inhumanity, because a Tampa dive shop owner did allegedly drive over to this coast this week because he thought he had made an on-line deal with the father of an eleven year old girl to avail himself of her in a hotel IN EXCHANGE FOR GIVING THE DAD LOBSTER DIVING LESSONS AND SOME LOBSTER TAILS.
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^ - 2008-09-15 06:14:14
(I don't at all mean to take anything away from the late author of the lobster article by weighing in on it, though.)
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Paula - 2008-09-15 15:25:11
Here's a commencement speech he wrote. I wonder what the students thought as they listened to it...
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MacGregor - 2008-09-15 17:38:19
That's a hell of a speech. At my graduation they told us that we were America's greatest natural resource. That wasn't so comforting considering how the treat other natural resources.
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Philip - 2008-09-15 17:48:34
God, Paula. That speech actually made me cry. And it made me wonder an old, tired wonder -- why is it always the good people?
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