Just got home from running errands only to turn on the boob tube & catch the very end of Moby Dick, a great classic movie adapted from one of the great works of American literature. I'm miffed that I didn't know it would be on and didn't catch the beginning, which is my favorite part (of the book, anyway). If you haven't read...and re-read...the book, you should...right now! Though I must admit some of the chapters--eg, "The Crotch" and "A Squeeze of the Hand" (about "squeezing that sperm")--are rather suspect. I visited Arrowhead, Herman Melville's house in the Berkshires of Masschusetts, on my honeymoon, so this awakens some bittersweet memories.

Herman Melville's Arrowhead - Berkshire Historical Society