The Sea Wolf-- and warp

[Veronique]

A lot of readers here at Pig, even those who have read
Jack London and know for a fact that Jack turned a dog
into a wolf in The Call of The Wild, and turned a wolf
into a dog in White Fang, carry about the assumption
that in The Sea Wolf, the ship is named the Sea Wolf.

The ship was The Ghost.
The captain was the wolf.

The second assumption is that the remake film version
starring Christopher Reeves is about ship wreak, betrayal,
brutality, and two castaways who don't sleep together--

(people think that because all that stuff is in the novel).

When challenged to a fight, by a bully, yet a well- educated
Man-- who says, " A fight ... between you and I. Choose
your weapon."

Humphrey, the hero of the tale, replies, "I choose gram-
mar. The correct is, "... between you and me." Well, that
grammar scold eased the tension, unlike in most social
settings where grammar corrections cast palls and leads
to the corrector being thought a jerk, at best a grammar
ass.

So, we have the book version and the film version of the
great adventure called The Sea Wolf. The earlier version
starred Edward G Robinson, John Garfield and Ida
Lupino.

Here's our version in sonnet form.

Impressed aboard Wolf Larsen’s ship,
Humphrey soon learned he’d have to be a sailor,
Tie knots, swab decks, swear like Norman Mailer--
Or else he would never survive the trip.
He cast off his cowardly ways, became a fighter
And saved Maud Brewster from a crew-sized raping.
Then, while the two of them were still escaping,
He said he loved her, too—the canny blighter!

Ere they were saved. they battled wind and weather
On a island in the middle of the ocean
Where they had built two, comfy sealskin huts.
One can admire their courage and devotion—
Yet, castaways who do not sleep together
Are either shy, impotent, or just plain nuts.
**
Dear reader-- what do you think?
Were they shy? Impotent? or just plain nuts?

v

[Wildcard]

He was a gentleman.

Humphrey was the educated type and lived in a very different world that Wolf Larsen. Wolf admired his education and kept him around because of it. Humphrey bested Wolf Larsen in the end, but remained a gentleman.

It is far-fetch because if it was me, there would have been a little hanky-panky, but I guess London wanted Humphrey to be the typical hero.

[rayheinrich]

Sheer practicality.
Being pregnant while shipwrecked greatly decreases probability of survival.

P.S.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615918/

Jean-Luc Godard: Film Socialisme (cruise ship sequence)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_Socialisme

[Erthona]

This is a sonnet in the same sense that London's wolf was a wolf. Or maybe a tectak sonnet, which generally seems to avoid iambic pentameter as if it were work

As to not sleeping together... well, it was a time--in literature--when manly virtue overrode manly erection ...of course that was manly* in literature Aside from the fact that they had no form of birth control and did not wish to be ostracized from society by producing a bastard; plus the idea of a man refraining from imposing his ardor upon the weaker women in a physical way as being a sign of true love was still extant. After all, this was not Henry Miller!

Dale

*Yes, that is a pun and not a misspelling. manly-mainly

[Veronique]

[quote='Erthona' pid='93844' dateline='1333658775']
This is a sonnet in the same sense that London's wolf was a wolf. Or maybe a tectak sonnet, which generally seems to avoid iambic pentameter as if it were work

As to not sleeping together... well, it was a time--in literature--when manly virtue overrode manly erection ...of course that was manly* in literature Aside from the fact that they had no form of birth control and did not wish to be ostracized from society by producing a bastard; plus the idea of a man refraining from imposing his ardor upon the weaker women in a physical way as being a sign of true love was still extant. After all, this was not Henry Miller!

Dale
**
Jack was a oyster pirate, a Socialist, a gold prospector
in the Yukon, and a suicide. The rest of his life has
not been mentioned.

Thanks for the comment.
V

[Erthona]

"Jack was a oyster pirate" Really? I thought he was gay?

[billy]

they lied, he was banging her like the wind bangs an open door,
they were both bandy and banged when found
and they had oral.

[Bronte]

I never saw the movie. I think I'm too young to understand it
but this glamours grammarass appeals to me