Uncle Remus or Herman Melville & 9/11

[Gordon Fitch]

Carrol Cox:
> A year ago I proposed the tarbaby as an image of the possible fate of
> the U.S. War on Terror. I did not know that Edward Said and others had
> already proposed (as mentioned in the current issue of the LRB) a more
> powerful analogy: 9/11 and its perpetrators as the Moby Dick, U.S.
> imperialism as Ahab. "America [has embarked] unchecked on another heroic
> venture: a worldwide geological survey for whatever still has the power
> to cross or terrify her, followed by massive excavations and
> uprootings." May that heroic venture be as disastrous as was Ahab's.

What boat d'ye think you're on, Ishmael?