"Fireflies" is a modern rendering of Moby Dick, with most of the
prominent characters and incidents from that work included, though
somewhat transformed. Ahab and Ishmael have become two Jewish
sisters from Brooklyn: Queequeg, a reformed Harlem drug dealer, and
Pip, a deaf Indonesian dancer. Starbuck, Flask, Stubb, and even
Bulkington, Feddalah, and Father Mapple are all here to partake in
this adventure.
But whereas Ahab strikes out in rage at a malevolent cosmos,
symbolized by the white whale that crippled him, Maggie's instinct
is to channel her wrath at fate's apparent hostility into creating
The White Elephant, a "pure" theater in which the vast wisdom of
the past might once more flower. Her relentless pursuit brings a
dark victory, enabling her to impose her own ephemeral order on one
small corner of an otherwise enigmatic universe.
As did its famous precursor, this novel ponders those profound
questions that so troubled Melville, while affirming once again
that the greatest adventure has always been the exploration of the
possible.
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