A Familiar Story Resurrected from the Depths of True Darkness
Originally published in December 2015. IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: A FAMILIAR STORY RESURRECTED FROM THE DEPTHS OF TRUE DARKNESS I must admit I never read Herman Melville's Moby Dick , heck not even the abridged version but near excerpts of the grand epic. Truth be told, though I'm an English teacher, I prefer writing to reading. A few years ago when I contemplated earning my second masters degree, I started in Hunter College in Manhattan to pursue a degree in literature, but after a semester I realized I didn't like studying other people's work. I wasn't a spectator but an actor. Not the receiver of magic but the magician. So very quickly I found myself wandering the halls of Manhattanville College earning an MFA in creative writing. With that in mind, I have always been fond of the image of a storm at sea. The vastness of this earth we live on is majority water, and that of the salty kind. The life of the writer is very much a life at sea, spending most of o...