...? Swimming in the Dark 1: The Shark The impact of the motion picture Jaws is being felt all along the East Coast where town authorities and lifeguards are being besieged with reports of sharks. . . . Anglers and bath- ers who never really took time to look carefully at the water before, are doing so now...

... for Computing Machinery , 2009 . Bernstein Mark Greco Diane . “ Card Shark and Thespis: Exotic Tools for Hypertext Narrative .” First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game . Eds. Wardrip-Fruin Noah Harrigan Pat . Cambridge : MIT Press , 2002 . 167 - 182 . Birkerts...

... with an unexplainable perennial appeal and which, in Kelly's estimation, "jumped the shark before it ever went on the air" (A7). Allusiveness a la Joyce and Eliot and meticulously constructed plots laden with historical research and a dash of paranoia (but with a light touch!) a la Pynchon or DeLillo seem...

... not die in the process, according to all accounts (90). Thus superimposing Ahab’s suicidal vengeance onto the whale, Parini renders an animal delirious in its rage, delivering a crazed and ungodly beating, hungry for death and destruc- tion. A whale, however, is not a shark, which curiously Parini’s...