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11772884 No.11772884 [Reply] [Original]

Never read Moby's Dick, what am I missing?

>> No.11772894

ask this to 1000 readers who have read Moby Dick, and you will still not truly know until you've read it yourself.

>> No.11773057

gay sex

>> No.11773064

to read is to be taken in, don't be a cyborg

>> No.11773104

>>11773057
count me in!

>> No.11773210

>>11773064
abc = 666

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>> No.11773247

>>11772884
Just read it. It's worth it. Get ready for the juiciest prose and homoeroticism of premodernist western literature.

>> No.11773248

>>11773242
No no no, Ishmael looks too worried, he was all about that Queequeg qock.

>> No.11773260

>>11772884
AHAB

>> No.11773273

other than moby dick and bartleby, what else is worth reading by melville?

>> No.11773304

A narrator who the writer wants to pirate-signal is this weathered old seadog, but comes across as a failed LARPer.

A Man Friday character who is somehow everything you'd ask for in a BBC bull but acts like an Uncle Tom around the white boss.

Technical details on whalehunting.

The fascinating lunatic character of Capt Ahab.

Read it for Ahab.

The original title should have been:

A H A B
(sub) or, The Whale