/lit/ - Literature

>>22303287
the whale was you reading it the whole time. you don’t realize it til the last twenty pages when the entire cast stands at the stern of the ship and address you, the reader, and explains why you are a whale it’s pretty stupid.

>>22303287
If you wanna see a whale just look into the mirror

>>22303293
I haven't read the book. Is...is this true?

>>22303334
Yes

>>22303287
If you come to Moby Dick wanting a story instead of extremely detailed historically accurate descriptions of the process and logistics of running a 19th century whaler, you've come to the wrong place.

>>22303287
old timey authors were very wordy
see thomas hardy these were considered action stories back then kek

>>22303354
No back then they didn't even like it
Critics said "why isn't it an action story like typee or omoo?"

>>22303287
>he didn't get the /lit/ annotated edition
you're missing out big time

>>22303287
Such is life on a southern whaler, anon.

>>22303334
It's not about the fucking whale, anon. JFC.

>>22303334
>hasn't read Moby Dick
This is why kek denied you quads.
Get off /lit/, fag. You may petition for return in two years.

>>22304090
It's 4 years now, council revised it.

>throbby-dick

>>22303334
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

FUNNIEST THING I'VE SEEN ALL DAY!!!

they saw your mom

>>22303287
the whale was an allegory for Ahab’s transgenderism

>>22303287
They hunt, kill, and butcher plenty of whales eventually

>>22303348
kek this.
Back in the day reading about real life entertained people.
Now they'd shoot themselves.

chapter 9 is all i needed to keep reading

>>22305932
for me, it's chapter 97
>It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.

>>22304090
You know you guys told me in a different thread that Lolita and Blood Meridian were the price of entry, and now you guys are changing it up on me, and it’s kind of annoying.

>>22303287
Maybe the real whale was the friends they made along the way

>>22303460
>haha le edgy jokes because I can't take a work of art seriously and need to hide my insecurity behind a ten veneers of irony

>>22306839
Has it been four years already?

>>22304200
it's not funny

>>22303460