Reading Moby Dick in May

[Anonymous No.15129281]

Anyone interested in joining me in reading Moby Dick, starting 1st May (Friday) and having some threads with progress and thoughts on the book?

[Anonymous No.15129422]

>>15129281
LETS FUCKIN GET IT

It'll be my third time through. I was planning on it anyhow for a grad app paper. I'm down. You should go ahead and make a reading schedule

[Anonymous No.15129457]

As long as it is not a discord group I might join

[Anonymous No.15129477]

>>15129457
Agreed. Lets do episodic threads for discussion. It'll be regular, and it'll let us flaunt our reading group to the rest of this god forsaken anime board

[Anonymous No.15129516]

I'd love to give it another read. It's one of those novels that really keeps the old vocabulary on its toes; Melville uses a lot of quaint, seldom-used English words.

[Anonymous No.15129545]

>>15129281
What? I refuse to read this "Dick" book that you've referenced in the header post. Is "Moby" supposed to be an exhibitionist of variety? He must be if his filthy writings hung out, no doubt concerning where his "Dick" has been, in a tome for all the public to see.

I long for the days of classic literary discussion that concerned real works - not some coy perversion, scribbled in a huff, where thumbing through the pages one can practically feel wet stick of the author's secretions coming right from the written word itself. What an insult you've presented us here today with "Moby Dick."

[Anonymous No.15129655]

>>15129422
>You should go ahead and make a reading schedule
Is something like that ok with everyone? We have plenty of time to change things (or we could start earlier).

The book is 135 short chapters. The edition I have is 735 pages, which averages 5.44 pages for a chapter, which means every 3-4 days we should be covering around 82 pages.

[Anonymous No.15129709]

>>15129655
I've got the Norton Critical edition, which is about 400 pages. 400/30 days is about 13 pages a day. Your edition must have some fat font or something. But I think the schedule looks good.
I'm going to be wrapping up the semester around April the 28th or so. Which means i'll be stabbing myself in the ass until then. I'll be down for a definitive start date, like May 1. Be careful. A lot of people are going to chime in on reading schedule parameters in the morning. Don't get overwhelmed Op. Stick to what makes sense for you and the rest will follow.
> Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
I'm excited!

[Anonymous No.15129724]

I'm down

[Anonymous No.15129783]

Im down for it
An anon once posted a really good website that discussed all the references (mostly biblical) in it. I'm not that familiar with the bible so it was really useful - does anyone have it

Just looking up "moby dick biblical references" doesnt yield the site I want

[Anonymous No.15129787]

>>15129709
>Your edition must have some fat font or something.
It has cool illustrations, they take up a lot of space.

[Anonymous No.15129811]

>>15129281
It's on my list for so long
Now is the time, thank you OP

[Anonymous No.15129840]

>>15129655
Looks good

It took me 3 weeks to do my first read so a whole month should be plenty even if I'm feeling a bit lazy

[Anonymous No.15129955]

>>15129281
spanish anon here
I have my hands on the novel but sadly it is in spanish. can i join nonetheless? i've never read it before

[Anonymous No.15129978]

>>15129955
Meville's prose is a big part of the appeal so I have no idea how a translation would handle it. You can just download the book from Gutenberg if you need to. Or if you're comfortable with the translation it would be fine to read it

[Anonymous No.15130037]

>>15129955
Of course translations are fine.
If we were reading Count of Monte Cristo nobody would expect that we all should read it in French.

[Anonymous No.15130286]

>>15129655
Looks good to me! Looking forward to it.

[Anonymous No.15130297]

>>15129787
That's exactly how I imagine Queequeg to look. I love it when illustrations get it right.

[Anonymous No.15130902]

OP here. I'll probably start a couple other threads next week to "spread the news" if any other anon wants to join in this.

[Anonymous No.15130945]

>>15129281
I want to join but I haven’t read Bible or Paradise Lost or whatever else Moby Dick builds on. Should I join anyway?

[Anonymous No.15130956]

Ill join you OP. How will we organize it? Daily/weekly threads on here?

[Anonymous No.15130965]

>>15129655
so discussion threads every wednesday and sunday in may?

[Anonymous No.15131002]

>>15130956
I was thinking on at least two threads a week - one on Wednesday and one on Sunday >>15129655
And more on other days if someone wants to talk on his progress, just write "Moby Dick" somewhere so we can find it in the catalog and that's it.

[Anonymous No.15131959]

>>15129281
If I can get a copy I will join you but I’ll probably join into threads regardless as it’s my favourite book. For now let’s post great passages
> The sea had leeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
>>15130945
You’ll still be able to enjoy it, and it’s the kind of book you can read many many times so just read again after you’ve read those as well

[Anonymous No.15132466]

>>15129281

I'm in. My semester ends next week, this one has always been on the bucket list.

[Anonymous No.15132494]

>>15131959
>Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

[Anonymous No.15132569]

I’m on chapter 81 on first read
And if any anon could link that biblical site references that a other anon mentioned it’s be cool
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