Maybe I shouldn't say it, but I really hated "Moby Dick."

[saffronhare]

Cancer Horoscope for week of December 29, 2011

Terrence Malick's Tree of Life is an ambitious work that deviates from formulaic approaches to film-making. Some observers hated its experimental invocation of big ideas, while others approved. New York Times critic A.O. Scott compared the movie to Herman Melville's Moby Dick, one of America's great works of literature. Here's what Scott wrote: "Mr. Malick might have been well advised to leave out the dinosaurs and the trip to the afterlife and given us a delicate chronicle of a young man's struggle with his father and himself. And perhaps Melville should have suppressed his philosophizing impulses and written a lively tale of a whaling voyage." Using this as a template, Cancerian, I urge you to treat 2012 as a time when you will be like Melville and Malick in your chosen field. Trust your daring, expansive vision.

Comments

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

oh joy.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I am generally in favor of suppressing philosophizing impulses, so this could be a challenge.

[calizen.livejournal.com]

As one familiar with newspaper horoscopes -- wow! I wonder if the horoscope writer was a fired writer for an artsy magazine.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

This wasn't from a newspaper. It's Rob Brezny's "Free Will" horoscope and I didn't cite the source properly. Whoops.

http://www.freewillastrology.com/

He's got some interesting stuff to say most of the time, but I frequently struggle to understand what he's talking about. :)