/lit/ - Literature

>Here's an elegantly written story about the perils of pursuing vengeance and one man's slow descent into madness.
>Oh-also here's 300 pages of boat terms and whale facts for you to dredge through. :)
Seriously, wtf is wrong with this guy?

inferior nationality cope

CALL ME...

How do we go from this...

I'll captain the boat.

>>10846555
Blocks your path.

ITT: Passages which really made you think.

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.”

Moby Dick is better than Ulysses and Melville could completely destroy Joyce in a fight. Prove me wrong.

>>9449265
Some people don't need to be "directed" to make unique art and in many cases are better for that lack of institutional direction.

Are his books worth reading?
Apart from Moby Dick of course

Other than the obvious what's his best book?