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Moby Dick is positively hilarious, why doesn't anybody talk about how comedic it is? Do the jokes fly over people's heads or something? I'm chuckling and laughing every other page, what an absolute delight to read.

>> No.19048490

>>19048460
kys

>> No.19048502

>>19048490
Ah, so the jokes DID fly over your head. Goddamn, you're thick.

>> No.19048503

>>19048460
its more mostly dry wit. entertaining, but not halarious and funny in the more comical sense.

>> No.19048504

>>19048460
This. It's a lot like Gravity's Rainbow in this respect.

>> No.19048515

>>19048460
Same.
"it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off" is objectively funny, and it's on the very first page

>> No.19048548

>>19048503
my favorite kind, to be honest
>>19048504
Good comparison, although the archaic articulation in MB might occasionally obfuscate the comedic nature of the sentences.
>>19048515
It's great, I can open any page and find a funny line in it:

Page 78
>ccaptain peleg in his gruff voice hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that craft, unless they previously produced their papers.

>> No.19048554

>>19048460
It's good, but Dickens mastered the dry wit less than a decade later.

>> No.19048564

Stubb > Ahab > Queequag > Ishmael > Flask > Daggoo and Tash >>>>>>>>>>>> Starbuck

>> No.19048578

>>19048564
Yeah Starbuck can go fuck himself, I can agree with that at least.

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Yes this edition brings out the humor inherent

>> No.19049666

>>19048460
“As they narrated to each other their unholy adventures, their tales of terror told in words of mirth; as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards out of them, like the flames from the furnace”

>> No.19050070

>>19048460
weird boner

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