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I started reading Moby-Dick. Why did the author spend 4 chapters writing about this persons anxiety about sleeping with a cannibal?

>> No.20905296

>>20905290
If you don't like this bit, you're not going to like the rest of the book.

>> No.20906110

>>20905290
Would YOU be comfortable sleeping with a cannibal?

>> No.20906122

>>20905290
I used to work with a guy called Alex Smith and I'm trying to picture him making this post

>> No.20906686

the crew of The Essex decided to sail back to South America instead heading for any of Pacific islands which were much closer and with the wind because they were this afraid of gay cannibals (who probably didn't even exist anymore at this point in time but Melville really wanted them to, see Typee)

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>>20905290
>>20906110
So you can tell from page 1 that the Narrator is an african american man.

He fears big Maori cock.

captcha: Wokery

>> No.20906696

>>20905290
>anxiety
he loved it

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>>20905290
I hope you got the authorised annotated version

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>>20906708
Don't worry, they have quality control for their editors :)

>> No.20906810

>>20905290
Its called moby-dick. Did you expect a book about sailors not to be gay?

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20906815

Just keep reading it anon. It’s good.

>> No.20907598

>>20905290
It’s called storytelling.

>> No.20907615

>>20905290
>why does this book written by a gay man about how much it sucks to be gay contain a scene where the narrator does some thinly veiled gay stuff?

This scene is the 19th century literary equivalent of the volleyball scene in Top Gun, anon.