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#writerscoffeeclub Oct 16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?
I'm not sure. Terminology changes between #Steampunk and mainstream #SciFi. But a lot of it is easily transferable between works of what basically fall under one genre. And, in #Riders_of_the_Dream it is a mix. We have #Star_Trek, #Babylon_5, #Firefly, #20,000_League, even a bit of #Moby_Dick. Quite a mish-mash.
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@sarahtaber Years ago, I inadvertently read what could be considered the 'true' inspiration for, "The Whale".
The book is "Typee: A Peak at Polynesian Life" (IIRC). In it is his account as a deserter who goes and winds up as the reluctant guest of a fierce, cabalistic tribe.
The story is his actual circumstances in jumping ship in a foreign (French) island port from a British ship (as an American sailor), and being him.
From there, #Moby_Dick, a fiction, begins to reveal the Genesis, it's birth and life, as a literary work of art.
Anyway, I don't much like spoilers so to me, looking back, I'm happy coz it seems the right order for me to have read them, but subjectively, only because I actually did so.
Another good read after your current selection might be The Old Man and the Sea.
Enjoy!
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