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Just finished reading Moby Dick. AMA.

>> No.8854580

why the long face?

>> No.8854583

>>8854577
Is there a better whale in fiction?

>> No.8854598

>>8854577
Why the noose? You sad because you're wasting your meaningless existence reading about whales?

>> No.8854611

Moby Dick... is a myth!

>> No.8854612

>>8854577
length and circumference?

>> No.8854615

Did he kill the whale in the end? I never found out.

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>>8854580
Because it was a brilliant story, and knowing that I finished reading it has saddened me. Also, the ending being, comfy as it was, was rather melancholy.

>>8854583
No, there isn't one. Moby Dick is the preeminent whale in all of literature. Though, this is not to say that it is the greatest whale story in all of history, in real life or fictitiously.

>>8854598
You sad because you're wasting your meaningless existence reading about whales?

Sounds like you're compensating for something, friend. Did a whale fuck your girl or something?

>>8854611
Pic related.

>>8854612
Well, they discern that its length is something absurd and dwarfs even the next largest sperm whale. It was an absolute behemoth, capable of destroying even the most formidable of whaling ships.

>>8854615
No, Moby Dick lives on. I think it's because the White Whale symbolizes God himself, which Man is inferior to, of course. Perhaps Melville intended Ahab's battle with Moby Dick to symbolize Man's battle with God or religion.

>> No.8854715

>>8854598
>reading about whales

What do YOU read about, faggot? Whales are /lit/ AF.

>> No.8854735

>>8854648
>posts picture of pepe with noose gets his panties in a twist when called on it.
Calm it senpai
>>8854715
Haven't read the dick I read whatever takes my fancy no point in relegating myself to reading some arbitrary thingamabob

>> No.8854814

>>8854577

What was your favorite part? Mine was The Fossil Whale.

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>>8854814
>What was your favorite part?

Definitely "The Town-Ho's Story", friend.

>> No.8854899

How did you get past the parts where melville copy and pastes sections from a dry nautical reference manual

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>>8854899
For one thing, I'm not a child who lacks the self discipline to read things that bore him.

>> No.8854951

>>8854715
is there a more /lit/ animal than whales?

I would imagine the most /lit/ animals are mostly flying or swimming creatures. Because they inhabit spaces that are foreign enough from us to be used as easy metaphors and sites of 'supernatural or inhuman' possibility.

>> No.8854958

I love the part with the nursing she-whales. The Grand Armada. DH Lawrence must have based Whales Weep Not on it. I won't accept that he didnt.

>> No.8854963

>>8854899
That's a singular chapter. This meme needs to die.

>> No.8855000

>>8854583
if by better you mean fatter, theres lena dunham

>> No.8855308

>>8854577
Would you also nail the ship's flag whilst sinking to your doom? I know I would

>> No.8855510

>>8855308
It depends. Hopefully I wouldn't be trapped in one of the quarters below deck. If I had a handgun, I'd probably blow my brains out so that I wouldn't have to die drowning, desu.

>> No.8856408

>>8854577
Does your first name start with an "N"?

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>>8856408
Nein, freund.

>> No.8856704

>suicidal guy who goes on the trip because fuck it is the only one spared by the whale

The most fucked up shit I ever read.