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Anonymous Tue Feb 13 13:56:27 2018 No.10690941 [Reply] [Original]

Just bought it. What am I in for?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:00:07 2018 No.10690957 >>10690941 Dense prose, thick as molasses, comedy, gay love, mocking philosophy, obsession, loss, rage, contempt, religion, and one of the greatest ensembles of letters and spaces to pass from human brain to paper.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:06:23 2018 No.10690980 >>10690941 About half of it is the best novel ever written

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:07:09 2018 No.10690983 the best book ever written

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:08:59 2018 No.10690988 >>10690980 >t. faggot that didn't squeeze his sperm properly, nor enjoyed the cetology chapter

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:09:51 2018 No.10690994 >>10690941 Honestly one of the best books ever. Prime yourself by reading Paradise Lost and some Shakespeare first, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:10:01 2018 No.10690995 File: 44 KB, 630x380, IMG_0889.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Try-Works best chapter. fite me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:21:18 2018 No.10691035 >>10690995 The Symphony is the best chapter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 14:22:21 2018 No.10691040 >>10690941 an overpriced novel. copies of moby dick are practically fat of the land. why would you pay for one?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 15:37:15 2018 No.10691362 >>10690941 You are in for a ride.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 15:41:13 2018 No.10691375 >>10690941 Imagine if Hugo wrote a novel about marine biology

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 15:45:15 2018 No.10691387 >>10690941 kys for asking dumb fucking questions

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 15:53:02 2018 No.10691427 >>10690957 You forgot capitalism

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 15:57:47 2018 No.10691445 >>10691427 Nah there a not much of that in there

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 15:58:18 2018 No.10691446 A whale of a good time...

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:00:38 2018 No.10691455 >>10690941 you're going to get pleb filtered like half the brainlets on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:02:01 2018 No.10691465 File: 64 KB, 600x704, brainlet but it isnt offensive.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10690988 Brainlet here. What purpose did that chapter serve? What was I supposed to appreciate about it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:05:51 2018 No.10691487 Where do I find a pdf ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:26:24 2018 No.10691573 >>10691465 There was no message behind it; it was just flavor.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:31:18 2018 No.10691590 >>10691465 Herman thinks whales are cool

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:34:29 2018 No.10691601 >>10691573 >>10691590 But I don't think whales are cool I just want my adventure story. Guess I'm just a pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:35:32 2018 No.10691604 >>10691601 show's over brainlet, get lost

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:35:51 2018 No.10691608 >>10691601 >But I don't think whales are cool Then why the fuck are you reading a novel about whaling?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:41:59 2018 No.10691634 >>10690941 Boredom

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:47:13 2018 No.10691663 File: 1.70 MB, 4032x3024, IMG_0651.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10691608 >think an animal is cool >reading books specifically depicting murdering that animal in lurid detail

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 16:54:40 2018 No.10691704 >>10691663 It's like someone who "doesn't like" gays reading a novel about the gay porn industry.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 17:18:29 2018 No.10691865 >>10691608 For the adventure, and the narrative is pretty cool so far.

Anonymous Tue Feb 13 17:44:34 2018 No.10692016

>>10691445
>crew goes out on sea for economic reasons (except Ahab and Ishmael)
>gold doubloon
>all the nasty shit they have to do on board because of money

I think also the whale somehow represented capitalism and Ahabs vain tries to "defeat" it. And I'm not even a commie or anything.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 17:49:44 2018 No.10692047 >>10692016 you sound like a fucking commie I don't think capitalism was really examined at all and only related to the soft anti-modernism in it. It's dirty to relate this to Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 19:19:41 2018 No.10692722 >>10691465 The chapter was mocking the belief that the world's mysteries can ever be wholly understood empirically, or at all

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 19:25:58 2018 No.10692759 File: 8 KB, 307x96, wtf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10690941 Did you get to the part where Moby Dick kills Ahab by wrapping a rope around his neck and popping it off like a champagne cork?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 20:30:16 2018 No.10693163 >>10690941 Everything BUT whales!

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 20:39:25 2018 No.10693209 >>10692016 shut the fuck up commie faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 21:00:49 2018 No.10693291 whales are fish if you disagree you don't understand moby dick and should get the fuck off my board

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 21:03:11 2018 No.10693303 >>10691446 This

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 21:15:51 2018 No.10693350 >>10690941 you will leave it on your shelf unread for months and eventually just pretend you've read it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 13 21:23:36 2018 No.10693391 File: 15 KB, 247x200, 1515766859345.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10692016 >I'm not a commie Thats what a Commie would say

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