... of the Pequod’s crew” and to whom Ahab had given no attention in the preceding 390 pages of the narrative (319). Ahab’s melancholic attraction to Pip becomes so affecting—“I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand than though I grasped an Emperor’sthat it threatens to derail the cap- tain’s...

... of radical inconsistency that point to an underlying set of concerns—to an occult narrative. The novel opens with a montage of character snapshots, bunk allot- ments, and jovial chaos as the crew of the Narcissus settles in. The scene is meant to showcase the camaraderie of those who went before...

... that the walls of the Royal Geographical Society's Council Room (in which this report was delivered) were hung with pictures of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance mission. As the polar ice froze, Shackleton's boat, too, crumpled in on itself; he and his crew were reduced to eating first their dogs...

... in all directions around him. With the help of his crew, Morpheus unplugs Neo from the matrix's simulation and hauls him aboard his airship, the Nebuchadnezzar : “Welcome to the real world,” he says grimly. The Matrix does not show up in Helen Thompson's dense, demanding, and fascinating new book...

... necessary for a crew to manage dangerous situations without panic and to avoid mutiny. One of the more fascinating aspects of this craft feature is that it requires a kind of strategic optimism and a form of deceit, the performance of which makes the craft of captain and pirate perilously similar...

... away from Earth, his crew spontaneously decides to form “a totally independent country” ( Dark 440 ) named “Starship Earth” (438). Debating “basic principles for a constitution,” they identify strict military order and “unified will to survive” as the most vital qualities for their new social order...

... a pirate crew. Seeking stability on land, he never quite finds it, instead spending the book in a restless transit across Africa and then on the waters of the Indian Ocean. In the end, he returns with his best friend to England, where he is ensconced in a small household—embracing a restricted...

... brings together people from diverse backgrounds. 17 Ishmael is there with a group of “Spanish friends,” Limeños listening to him recount a tale passed along to his shipmates from the crew of the Town-Ho , an American whaler. On that vessel, a conflict between the ship's mate and a crewman, Steelkilt...

... a brick, teaching us not only what we should and should not do with books but the kind of person we should be: a reader. Against the bildungsroman and its idealized version of reading, Price positions a motley crew of foils: the religious tract, the prize book, the family Bible, the first-person book...

..., however, is that its crew of vampire hunters mostly treat Dracula's arrival in England as a chance to hone their respective specialized methods of data collection and analysis. Moreover, the fiction's prototypical New Woman, Mina Murray (later Harker), only really causes trouble for the vampires...

..., the white first mate aboard the slave ship Creole, describing Washington's part in the shipboard slave revolt for which he was known. Sitting with several friends, Grant explains how it was that the white crew was overpowered: "The leader of the mutiny in question was just as shraod a fellow...

.... “The New Capital of India: Lord Crewe on Town Planning.” The Times 5 August 1912 : 9 . Nietzsche , Friedrich . On the Genealogy of Morals . 1887. Trans. Douglas Smith. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996 . Nurse , Bernard . “Planning a London Suburban Estate: Dulwich 1882–1920.” The London...

... grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, through the flawless display of middle-class good manners and virtues. Burnett returns often to the figure of the aristocratic child who embodies domestic ideals. For example, Sara Crewe, in A Little Princess, is motherly, self-controlled, and charitable, while...

... on Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., for example, Justice David H. Souter (who was writing for the unanimous majority) stated that 2 Live Crew’s song “Ugly Woman,” which the rap music group claimed to be a parody of Roy Orbison’s famous rock song, “Pretty Woman,” was entitled to fair use protection...

..., or scenes that were, in a less definable way, replete with foreboding and that often lacked even the interpretive crutch of a title. I’m thinking here of the work of such artists as Cindy Sherman, Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall, and Justine Kurland. Crewdson, using film-set size crews and, frequently...

... as a "Black born in Carolina 12 years old" and then there's the 1773 ship muster for the Race Horse that lists among the roll- call of the crew a "Gust. Weston" and a "Gust. Feston" of "S. Carolina." South Carolina? If Equiano was born in South Carolina, not the west coast of Africa, then Equiano...

... to relay—the sudden onslaught of a native attack as he and his crew make their way up the Congo River: “Sticks, little sticks, were flying about—thick: they were whizzing before my nose, dropping below me, striking behind me against my pilot-house. All this time the river, the shore, the woods, were very...

... correlative in military reconnaissance. But so far this is a monocular view of Gravity’s Rainbow as the novelistic equiva- lent to what it calls “the fussy Norden device” (151)—the top-secret Norden bomb- sight the Allies claimed was so accurate it enabled air crews to “drop a bomb into a pickle...

... and of repetition traced by the opening, the divergence from, and the violent spacing, of nature, of the natural, savage, salvage, forest” (107–08). Arrow of God contrasts “the narrow, ancient footpath” on which Ezeulu’s son Obika travels to join the road-building crew and the new road that the young man...

...,” and manned by a nearly silent crew of lascars who are one of the explicit subjects of Ghosh's text ( Conrad 10 ). In its hold is another silent mass: “the unconscious pilgrims of an exacting belief” who “at the call of an idea” had left “the surroundings of their youth and the graves of their fathers” (11...