/lit/ - Literature

>>8859633
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>>8854580
Because it was a brilliant story, and knowing that I finished reading it has saddened me. Also, the ending being, comfy as it was, was rather melancholy.

>>8854583
No, there isn't one. Moby Dick is the preeminent whale in all of literature. Though, this is not to say that it is the greatest whale story in all of history, in real life or fictitiously.

>>8854598
You sad because you're wasting your meaningless existence reading about whales?

Sounds like you're compensating for something, friend. Did a whale fuck your girl or something?

>>8854611
Pic related.

>>8854612
Well, they discern that its length is something absurd and dwarfs even the next largest sperm whale. It was an absolute behemoth, capable of destroying even the most formidable of whaling ships.

>>8854615
No, Moby Dick lives on. I think it's because the White Whale symbolizes God himself, which Man is inferior to, of course. Perhaps Melville intended Ahab's battle with Moby Dick to symbolize Man's battle with God or religion.