/lit/ - Literature

People complaining about the "whaling bs" throughout the book is sad, every chapter concerning technicalities is wrapped within beautiful little comparisons that engage the reader.
I feel sad after finishing it.

Whiteness, a blank nothing, but intensified immensely, is the totality of experience and the noumena which our senses may only hint at. The mosaic choral insects and luminous orbs which drove Pip mad were the components of the whiteness, the dissipated lights forming a collected coherency which approached totality, God. He was not strong enough to hold this, no man is, though they try--Bulkington, the lone struggler embraced the discordant ocean and reached apotheosis, death, in the maelstrom of elements from the brow of the Pequod. Ahab sought to slay that whiteness, the harsh glare that had dogged his life with wretchedness while it had made others' so tolerable, and as no man can withstand the fire of the sun he was annihilated. Only Ishmael, who did not seek the whiteness of the world but the rainbow of its retractions, could escape the doomed seekers. God, the sun, ocean, whiteness... join them all and you'll be destroyed. Don't seek the infinite whiteness, it's a glare too terrible to hold

No novel has come close to how brilliant this is

Prove me wrong

I need a custom Moby Dick with this cover.

>>7910611
dayum, that looks sweet

>>7905118
I hate you.

>>7901474

I'm loving this book so far but I'm also very interested in how polarising this book is here on /lit/.

Let's have a casual discussion about this book: why do you love it? Why do you hate it? Did you have a favourite scene/passage/paragraph/etc? Did the book disappoint you? What did you honestly expect when reading this? (that's not a sarcastic question, I'm genuinely interested since people's perception of this book often seems to differ from what they actually read)

Also why is this the best Moby Dick cover?

>>7757595
You sure about that?

>>6237667
My favorite Moby Dick cover

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/intro/text.shtml

http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/

>>4999655
>finish Whale
>need to summary plot
>"Where there's a whale, there's a slay."
>squeeze

>>4966374
I always preferred this fan cover for that one.