/lit/ - Literature

>>16891900
Don't forget this one, it seemed to have the greatest response (though I would make it a bit more insidious to draw normies in).

>>16891900
Is there a final deadline for submissions yet?
I'm trying to finish my endnote this week but it might take longer than I thought.

Was Herman Melville/Moby Dick Schopenhauerean?

>>16891900
added links to all the artwork described in chapter 56. https://bygosh.com/novels/moby-dick/of-whales-in-paint/ has photos of the artwork in chapter 57 but i'm not sure these photos are public domain

>>16892132
I'm in favor of having like 50 cover arts in a row as the first part of the book before anything

>>16892151
No, but it is running out of steam. I think this thing has about a week left until its totally dead. It needs progress or new blood.

>>16892524
based

>everyone else gets humdrum animals
>one anon gets a powerful demon from islam
what the shit

What is a whale

>>16892850
fish

>>16892629
How much of a failure would it be to publish the thing without an endnote for every chapter?

>>16892921
no its a sea reptile

>>16893532
I dont think so as long as we have footnotes for every chapter

How was Herman Melville bullied?
>Smellville
>Smallville
>Sheman

>>16895439
Merman Smellville but why would you bully him?

Bump

>>16895571
He died as a joke too. He pissed away his family's wealth

>>16892132
Man this is fucked up, this is a strong candidate

bump

>>16897202
i think we should go with one that doesnt look like shit

>>16898600
But that one uses copyrighted art.

well, its been a good ride, but i think this ship is sinking

>>16900006
if you OP then give me one or two more days, i might send in a comparisson on the basis of a chapter

I read moby dick for the first time last year and have nothing to contribute, but I'm really glad you guys are doing this.

I am isolated from people who read books like this and even further isolated from enjoyable people who do.

Keep it up.

>>16900240
Wait, we need a cover? Maybe I do have a contribution.

I really like the covers posted so far, but here's something I painted earlier this year. Maybe you guys will like it.

I can get a slightly better image by scanning it.

>>16900251
Kek

>>16900251
I could probably get it higher res and photoshop it to a portrait format if you guys like it.

Deleted a post where i said mean things about people I know.

>>16887312

You could take a hiatus a couple weeks then come back for a week or two, then rinse & repeat a couple times. It'll get fresh blood. I think lots of /lit/ doesn't browse all the time. Best way to ensure highest end-quality.

>>16892850
>>16892921
>>16894246
it's a fucking dragon

>>16891900
Yeah more like Moldy Dick by Herman Smellville amirite fellas?

bump

>>16898675
who gives a shit, are we selling this thing? it's going to be distributed through piracy sites. people could be putting copyrighted text into the footnotes for all we know.

>>16902018
>are we selling this thing?
yes, yes we are.

>>16902018
>>16902240
OP should form an llc to sell it through for this reason.

>>16892620
That's actually a good idea anon

>>16897143
Based

>>16900619
Mmm peenees smelle

Chpt 50 anon here. Op thanks for your work, and I know it’s annoying to keep managing this project, but releasing it without everything endnoted would be super wack. Btw I thing the close-up whale face cover is the best.

>>16891900
That cover illustration is really top-tier. It is quite the iconic image.

>>16902420
>>16902543
The guy who drew this image asked for it not to be the cover art. I'm OP but I didn't make this thread.
>without everything endnoted
I would also like endnotes for everything but we have basically come to a standstill with submissions

>>16902820
I think "close-up whale face" refers to the other cover, the middle one in the previous thread op; did that one (also) ask for it not to be used?

>>16902903
Ah, thought he meant the eye cover used for this thread, the three covers from the last thread are still in contention as well as the rainbow cover

We have decided that the physical published book will be slightly different than the pdf/epub/ebook version that will be released online.
The ebook version will contain absolutely everything. That means ever shitpost, every cover design. No submission will be excluded from the ebook.
The physical book is constrained by a maximum number of pages, Lulu maxes out at 800, so we will most likely have to make a few cuts to save space, but everything cut will be noted so that it can be referred to in the ebook. The physical copy will only have a single cover which has yet to be determined.
I hope that everyone will take the Christmas break to write endnotes and footnotes for chapters that are missing, or finish the chapter that you previously called. Those who have written one or multiple endnotes will tell you that it doesn't take much time. Write as many endnotes and footnotes as you can, every submission gets added to the doc

>>16900251

Have a bump. I’d like to contribute to this at some point but I can’t right now with muh classes, also I’m probably too much of a brainlet to add any real analysis

>>16904481
shitposting is the majority of the book

Belongs to whatever chapter OP feels worthy:
>Herman Melville was a scoundrel who stumbled into brilliance when he discovered the seventeen manuscripts left by John Webster. Fearing a reputation of a minor Petrach, the American lothario was hard at work composing short stories and novellas, anything perhaps to expound upon the nugget of brilliance that lay before him. And so now that we've equipped ourselves with the necessary knowledge can we access the thematic and literary aspects of the chapter that lies before us. Ahab and Ishmael have had their first conformation. The rough demeanour of the former doesn't sit well with the latter. I believe this instance to be a reference to the great philosopher, Schopenhauer. The morose and despondent view this man had of women, Melville recontextualizes and applies it to the heroic ideal. It is important to note the implicit references Herman hints at of Ishmaels crossdressing. His correspondence with his sister details the rudimentary excursion, that served as the model and inspiration. The enticement of the wonderful Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sweet alliance annexed and soon after discarded (for Herman's own nefarious purposes no doubt), leading poor Nathaniel to the grave. I still haven't quite gotten over it, a cold blooded writerly bludgeoning.

was i hallucinating or was there a scene where he is wading his arms in whale cum and feeling at peace with the universe or whatever. that scene was pretty based.

>>16905505
Yes there is lol chapter 94

>>16905505
spermaceti is not whale cum

>>16892471
Melville takes great joy in living during moby-dick, so no

Bump

>to mobydickbylit
>I have not proof read this. It is 5 am here now.

>Chapter 93: The castaway:

>The death of God liberated man from the burden of debt to his phantasma of an omnipotent being. Unlike the ancient greek or the jew the (post) christian man is free from sacrifice worship and repenting. There is no being looming over man who demands of him often which he can not figure out for himself.
>Who believes christianity ought to still hold all these characteristics, and that Jesus' death was nothing but the formalistic forgiveness of some first sin, that still leaves a life of penitenceand servitude has simply returned to the time pre Christ's death and changed nothing. The man who lives in this actual understanding of Christianity is little different to the BC man in respect to one who sees Christ as having brought the true blessing of relieving mankind from himself, from God. There should be no hatred towards God in this man, for to him Christ simply showed man what he actually already was. Though God is omnipresent, there is no first sin, no debt, no gratitude that needs amends; man was as free before Christ as he is now after his death, yet there are stll those who live as though their life is


Sent you a submission, OP.

>>16906292
He squeezed balls and held hands. It was jizz by the end

>>16907436
I got it I just haven't had the chance to add it yet, thanks for the submission

>>16903036
What is this? what are you getting out of this?
Is this some autistic online hivemind university research project?

>>16907968
>He squeezed balls and held hands
Chapter+Quote? Read it in may, don't remember him squeezing balls at all.

>>16909388
>>16907968
He squeezed lumps of spermaceti in order to keep it liquid. Spermaceti is not whale sperm, but at the time of writing, it was thought to be.

>>16910030
No it wasn't. It's called sperm not semen
>>16909305
It's just for fun

I take it if a chapter is missing then there is an opening for someone to do endnotes for that particular chapter? So long as it's not highlighted in the contents?

>>16910316
Right

Just finished an endnote submisison for Chapter 31, I really do hope we get this thing published, would love to have a copy

>tfw still have my copy of totalitarianism in a tundra sitting on my shelf
>it's my favorite weird book to show off
keep at it, /lit/

>>16904481
I’m in the same boat as this anon
>>16900404
Do this please. Some of us don’t have time right now to write anything, and others are reading the book still (yes I know you don’t have to have finished it to contribute). Hold out. I believe in you OP-chan

Did these semen slurping seamen make bank when they got back home to port?

>>16910901
kind of. They had no expenses for the voyage so they actually profited from trip. So they only made good money if they were single

>>16910565
did you send it in? I haven't gotten it yet

>>16910913
I'll try sending it in again

>>16910976
Got it

>>16908240
approve my edits to the spelling check mistakes

>>16911883
done

Bump, let's get these submissions rolling in

Just finished this up

>>16914260
Can someone write a short analysis of this image that we can feature in the book

Did Ahab get cucked by his wife driving him insane?

>>16915574
He had a baby so I think it's definitely possible since Ahab is barely on land and at sea for 3 years straight so how's his wife going to have a newborn baby

>>16914260
>>16914509
A beautiful postmodern work that puts our conventional understanding of Moby Dick to shame. A whale hunting the human, genius! A massive Dick atop the S.S. Essex, perhaps a critique of the consequences of the sexual revolution. As for the phrase, “/lit/ group of individuals,” it references some of the greatest minds of our time. True literary geniuses whose work is underappreciated in many circles, for their intellect provokes lesser men.

It's shit but if no one else makes a better one here you go

>>16916241
[1](After S.S. Essex) In 1820 a massive sperm whale rammed a Nantucket whaling ship, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Stranded 1,500 miles from land, the surviving crew’s horrific quest for survival came to symbolize the primordial struggle between man and nature. A critique of Smellville copying off of actually exciting real life events.

Notice also the large protruding snout, or nose of the whale. It leads me to believe that the whale is also a merchant of some kind.

Bump

>>16916588
[1](after merchant) money lender

>>16910819
Did you make a physical copy yourself?

>>16891900
Don't have a lot of time to contribute and I want to read it first, so here's something I thought of:
Melville's original draft was named Moby Dickor: The Whale Nigger. It was very experimental in nature; the word 'nigger' made up 90% of its contents.

>>16891900
Just started reading Moby Dic here. I’m at work now so I can’t really go through everything, but have people already written notes on Melville’s discussion of the biology of whales - quite a lot of which turned out to be incorrect?

>>16919053
are you saying a whale isn't a fish

>>16919053
It was correct bro
>>16919043
It's on lulu and amazon

A whale is a fish
To say otherwise makes you a bitch,
I am an expert in cetology,
Spouting water and a horizontal tail,
Nantucketers will write your eulogy,
You will never me female

crew i missed a small detail about this book and now I'm in chapter 16 lost. Why does Ishmael want to go whaling as opposed to continuing his regular sailing methods? Or has that been explained this many chapters in?
Please I don't want to reread those chapters at least until a couple of years pass

>>16920437
He is supposed to go whaling

>>16919053
It wasn't about being correct anon

>>16920437
whaling is supposed to be badass compared to regular sailing. He's sailed before and thinks he's hot shit (he's not).

>>16900251
Definitely this

>>16920603
>>16920632
thanks looks like I didn't miss anything reading wise

Can someone tell em what to do? I’m currently reading moby dick and reading the early chapter was a blast. I’m currently on chapter 35 and I feel like I’m having fun as I used to when read the early chapters

>>16921799
Keep reading, I didnt get hooked until around chapter 70 or so

How long does it take to get the doc updated?

>>16922460
What do you mean?

>>16922596
Probably how long does it take to add a submitted endnote to it

>>16923132
Oh normally it's instant but I'm in the middle of finals at the moment so it won't be until tomorrow evening that I can add your submission

Bump

Last bump for today

is it just us