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“The Preacher Thought as I Think”: Wolf Larsen, Humphrey Van Weyden, and Jack London’s Ecclesiastes

“The Preacher Thought as I Think”: Wolf Larsen, Humphrey Van Weyden, and Jack London’s... 2015 robert h. elias essay prize winner “The Preacher Thought as I Think” Wolf Larsen, Humphrey Van Weyden, and Jack London’s Ecclesiastes Dustin Faulstick, Missouri Southern State University The Preacher who was king over Israel in Jerusalem thought as I think. You call me a pessimist. Is not this pessimism of the blackest?— “All is vanity and vexation of spirit,’ ‘There is no profit under the sun,” “There is one event unto all,” to the fool and the wise, the clean and the unclean, the sinner and the saint, and that event is death, and an evil thing, he says. For the Preacher loved life, and did not want to die, saying, “For a living dog is better than a dead lion.” He preferred the vanity and vexation to the silence and unmovableness of the grave. And so I. . . . Life itself is unsatisfaction, but to look ahead to death is greater unsatisfaction. — Wolf Larsen, The Sea- Wolf, 563– 64 In Jack London’s 1904 novel The Sea- Wolf, Wolf Larsen reads extensive- ly fr om chapters two and nine of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes before proclaiming that its author, the Preacher, thought as he, Larsen, thinks. In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in American Naturalism University of Nebraska Press

“The Preacher Thought as I Think”: Wolf Larsen, Humphrey Van Weyden, and Jack London’s Ecclesiastes

Faulstick, Dustin
Studies in American Naturalism , Volume 10 (1) – Jan 31, 2016
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2015 robert h. elias essay prize winner “The Preacher Thought as I Think” Wolf Larsen, Humphrey Van Weyden, and Jack London’s Ecclesiastes Dustin Faulstick, Missouri Southern State University The Preacher who was king over Israel in Jerusalem thought as I think. You call me a pessimist. Is not this pessimism of the blackest?— “All is vanity and vexation of spirit,’ ‘There is no profit under the sun,” “There is one event unto all,” to the fool and the wise, the clean and the unclean, the sinner and the saint, and that event is death, and an evil thing, he says. For the Preacher loved life, and did not want to die, saying, “For a living dog is better than a dead lion.” He preferred the vanity and vexation to the silence and unmovableness of the grave. And so I. . . . Life itself is unsatisfaction, but to look ahead to death is greater unsatisfaction. — Wolf Larsen, The Sea- Wolf, 563– 64 In Jack London’s 1904 novel The Sea- Wolf, Wolf Larsen reads extensive- ly fr om chapters two and nine of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes before proclaiming that its author, the Preacher, thought as he, Larsen, thinks. In

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Studies in American Naturalism – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Jan 31, 2016

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