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20436015 No.20436015 [Reply] [Original]

>whole chapter on whale bones
anyone that recommends Moby Dick should be harpooned

>> No.20436020

Why?

>> No.20436021

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.

>> No.20436024

>>20436015
Boohoo you had to read about something “boring” for ten minutes. Pseud. Go play fortnight and get those wins bro frfr.

>> No.20436050

>>20436021
homo as fuck

>> No.20436057
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20436057

Moby Dick is a classic.

>> No.20436066

Melville is great because of his prose style and because of the world he’s dragging you into, of course there’s a good mind there and obviously a culture influencing plot, but ignoring that and just focusing on those chapters, his prose style is still shining through and is still every bit as enjoyable, and OP you get to learn about a world that’s largely not existent any longer, as much of the information is corrected or the supply, equipment and business aspects just no longer there. You should enjoy it as a kind of time capsule into that industry, way of life, level of science and so forth. It’s very interesting if you allow yourself to not seethe over not getting your plot progression. But if it’s that big of a deal to you, you can just skip those chapters, they’re not hard to sort which is which.

>> No.20436468

>>20436015
The prose in unparalleled in all of the American cannon:

“With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.”

>> No.20436520

>>20436468
That sentence managed to filter me. What's the Nantucketer? What sails is he furling? Is he laying himself to rest?

>> No.20436544

>>20436015
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

nigger

>> No.20436588

>>20436520
Fucking hell man, I have never even read the book and have no knowledge of sailing but even I understood that prose. Nantucket’s an island off the coast of Massachusetts — A Nantucketer is obviously someone from there, and given the time period and their location, they must make their living on the sea in some way, ergo he is on a boat, and at night he fuels up the sails like a Gull would tuck in its wings, to sleep. Duh.

>> No.20436897

>>20436544
cringe

>> No.20436910

>>20436588
And he dreams of walruses and whales? Or do they actually storm his boat?

>> No.20436926

>>20436910
why not both?

>> No.20436940

>>20436926
So the Nantuckter drowned? Were his sails unfurled? And was the gull rudely awoken then?

>> No.20437429

>>20436020
I'll tell yah why. This book is just a dance of English blubber, and the song is too long. It may be credited as something, but idk what;a great novel and story, it is not. One of the most overrated books ever written.

>> No.20437433

>>20436024
> Ten minutes
Entire book is one long, long, long bar stool story.

>> No.20437449

>>20436910
It's the ocean. Is this what being average IQ is like?

>> No.20437451

>>20437429
Filtered.

>> No.20437455

>>20436015
>>20436024
>>20436057
>>20436066
>>20436468
>>20436588
>>20437429
if you haven't read every single extract in the epigraph, did you even really read moby-dick?
https://www.26reads.com/library/39546-moby-dick/2

>> No.20437456

>>20436021
Every single passage I read I was always trying to explain away the gayness and homo shit as merely sailor culture. But then I got tho this chapter and I was like "yeah this is really fucking gay, bro"

>> No.20437852

>>20437456
>this is really fucking gay, bro
How insightful. This board has been taken over by children.

>> No.20437877

I argued with my friend about this, she thought they really pulled you in by “obviating” the trivia of your life with the trivia of whales, bringing you closer to the experience. I told her it reads more like Wikipedia info dump

>> No.20438156

>>20436910
Yes

>> No.20438167

>>20437877
Wasted get

>> No.20438217
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20438217

Woah, what a minute, why did reddit switch to 4chan's design??

>> No.20438742

it's to highlight his fetishistic autistic fixations on things, a byproduct of his natural religiosity and quasi schizophrenic tendency to inflate everything to great significance and allegory

>> No.20438780

>>20438742
I like leafing through the dictionary too but you should make sure you understand the meaning of the words before you use them.

>> No.20439139

>>20437877
You got witmogged by a woman.

>> No.20439172

>>20436015


Reading now, highly enjoyable.

Ahabs speech about the hidden world behind this one grew me an extra testicle.

>> No.20439202

very cool book

>> No.20439213

>>20436520
he's going to sleep on a boat at sea, just like some birds sleep in midair during their migrations. His pillow is the ocean, the place where walruses and whales rush about. It's a characterization of the sea, not a description of action

>> No.20440138

>>20437451
False. I grew up, and still live in an Atlantic fishing community. I enjoy the work, and especially reading on long steams upshore, but this one was just a cum splat of English prose and most fishermen wouldn't even consider Moby dick "good".
Two Years Before The Mast is a great sea book and it doesn't leave you tired of endless blabbering either..I think you'll find it was even Melville's go-to book while working on Moby Dick.

>> No.20440166

>>20436940
kek

>> No.20441134

>>20437429
I disagree with you, but I respect the effort you put into this response