/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22958781]

I won’t lie; I was not expecting the gay undertones in this. I’m early in the book though and I can only hope that these undertones will not continue.

[Anonymous No.22958784]

>>22958781
It's not gay until a woman has a role worth mentioning.

[Anonymous No.22958785]

>>22958781
I wouldn‘t get your hopes up

[Anonymous No.22958791]

>>22958781
Wait 'til you get to Billy Budd.

[Anonymous No.22958796]

>>22958781
I'm maybe 10 or 15 pages in and not sure if I'll finish. The way he writes is just offputting.

[Anonymous No.22958800]

>>22958796
>The way he writes is just offputting.
Put it down and come back to it in 10 years.

[Anonymous No.22958807]

I've got the Dick coming in the mail, should I read Infinite Jest first so it doesn't seem like total shit after a real novel?

[Anonymous No.22958812]

>>22958781
>book about chasing SPERM whales

[Anonymous No.22958819]

[Anonymous No.22958935]

>>22958781
They don't. Once the ship departs Queequeg and Ishmael's relationship is barely ever brought up again and Ishmael himself acts as mostly just a narrator. It's quite jarring actually, because you expect it to be a buddy adventure based on the initial ashore chapters.

[Anonymous No.22958979]

>>22958781
>I can only hope that these undertones will not continue
They do not, although you will read about sailors swimming in gallons of semen

[Anonymous No.22958987]

>>22958812
>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.22959188]

>>22958819
>does not understand what true bromance is.
Stop looking at every interaction with your cock and instead look at it with your heart faggot.

[Anonymous No.22959275]

>>22958819

[Anonymous No.22959350]

>>22959188
It's exactly sublimated homo lust. Same story with all those manly movies that /tv/ incels love

[Anonymous No.22959354]

>>22958781
i'm about halfway through. the gay undertones cool down but I have a feeling they are gonna pick back up when the BWW starts pounding their poopdeck

[Anonymous No.22959372]

Was it all as a joke? He doesnt look like a faggot or have a faggy name

[Anonymous No.22959384]

>>22958781

>a book about seamen
what were you expecting

[Anonymous No.22959813]

>>22959275
>He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me around the waist, and said that henceforth we were married

[Anonymous No.22960283]

>>22958781
>Story about giant dick
>Surprised it is so gay
Come on anon.

[Anonymous No.22960665]

for me it was the 15 straight pages of whale species classifications

[Anonymous No.22960672]

>>22960665
that was great but i found comparing the heads of a sperm whale and a right whale overkill.

[Anonymous No.22960684]

>go to /lit/
>it’s actually /homo/

[Anonymous No.22960791]

what the fuck was wrong with Melville?
Moby Dick:
>narrator gets interracial gay married before he even gets on the boat
Redburn:
>narrator falls in love with a British twink and takes him back to America
Billy Budd:
>handsome sailor gets antagonized by his gay superior officer because of mixed homo attraction and jealousy
why did he have to make everything so gay?

[Anonymous No.22960820]

>>22958781
>Two males have a friendly good relationship
>HURR DURR THEY HAVETO BE GAY FUCKING EACHOTHER IN THE ASS
Honestly homosexuality being a mentall illness is starting to make more sense. Do you faggots not have any friends?
>INB4 B-BUT THE PAGAN NIGGER CALLED HIM HIS WIFE!
Consider suicide.

[Anonymous No.22960826]

>>22958781

Moby dick and blood meridian both have very blatant gay undertones everywhere and you will see those books recommended here daily.
Moby dick is a very good novel though so just push through. Just scim read the blatant obvious paragraphs. That one pasted above is by far the most blatant one.

[Anonymous No.22960850]

Derailing the thread. How much am I going to lose if I read it in italian translation? I could read the original, but I am a bit afraid that it could become a slog

[Anonymous No.22961059]

It's honestly a little gay to me if you can't be a little gay with your bros. You faggots get so hung up on shit like this it's weird.
>OMG HE TOUCHED ANOTHER MAN AFFECTIONATIELY!!! UGH
Such an odd and truly sad modern phenomenon

[Anonymous No.22961369]

>>22958796
>The way he writes is just offputting.
...

[Anonymous No.22961384]

Sometimes I fall platonically in love with other men. It's not sexual at all.

[Anonymous No.22961427]

>>22958781
Wait until you find out why it's a sperm whale, lol

[Anonymous No.22961565]

>>22958819
Is this /lit/‘s moby dick?

[Anonymous No.22961593]

>book about sailing and sea-men
>not expecting gay shit
People were making fun of sailers and men out at sea since long before the jokes about the navy

[Anonymous No.22961889]

*looks through thread*
maybe it's bout time I read this classic...

[Anonymous No.22962019]

>>22959813
UwU

[Anonymous No.22962025]

>I-I am scared of faggots they have cooties and might touch me and then what if I like it? that makes me a fag too goddammit.

[Anonymous No.22962402]

My Dick arrived. Let's do it.
>He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world.
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.22963015]

I have to respect this unrepentant deluge of seatism and whaling references.

[Anonymous No.22963019]

>>22958819
Someone has to polish the harpoon

[Anonymous No.22963415]

>>22962402
Ishmael is hilarious.
>It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch. Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah? But "The Crossed Harpoons," and "The Sword-Fish?"—this, then, must needs be the sign of "The Trap". However, I picked myself up and hearing a loud voice within, pushed on and opened a second, interior door.

>It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit. It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there. Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of "The Trap!"