Comments on: Melville and Visualization http://leisurelyhistorian.net/melville-and-visualization/ Old and New Media, Leisure, and Entertainment Through a Historic Lens Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:26:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: melvillean http://leisurelyhistorian.net/melville-and-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-192 melvillean Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:05:55 +0000 http://leisurelyhistorian.net/?p=234#comment-192 To clarify here: the story, insofar as it is a recounting by the narrator, most definitely is about Bartleby—it's the topic our narrator is talking about. The meta-story, though—what's going on in <i>how</i> he tells the story—is most definitely about the narrator and not about Bartleby. And of course, in thinking about data mining, it's going to completely miss the important things in stories that are never said (e.g. "Hills Like White Elephants"). To clarify here: the story, insofar as it is a recounting by the narrator, most definitely is about Bartleby—it’s the topic our narrator is talking about. The meta-story, though—what’s going on in how he tells the story—is most definitely about the narrator and not about Bartleby.

And of course, in thinking about data mining, it’s going to completely miss the important things in stories that are never said (e.g. “Hills Like White Elephants”).

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