herman melville

[The Argonaut]

Today's the first day of summer. Dick Summer. I'm digging into my three dollar paperback of Moby Dick. So far, I've read the Extracts, which begin with a celebration of the sub-sub-librarian. As something of a sub-sub-librarian myself, I really appreciated it

[BurtReynolds]

Happy Dick Summer to everyone.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

It's been slow going for me. Maybe I can put a dent in the 'Dick this weekend.

[Simple Torture]

Good luck Dick heads, here’s a piece my sister got me for Christmas last year (the text is Chapter 1):

[lennytheweedwhacker]

That’s one big whale!

[The Argonaut]

If it wasn't quite so compelling, I'd be tempted to write off the first few chapters as cutesy. The familiar style is not what I was expecting, but I'm enjoying it all immensely at the moment. I'm through Chapter 9, the sermon about Jonah and the whale

[blueviper]

Good luck Dick heads, here’s a piece my sister got me for Christmas last year (the text is Chapter 1):

oh, this is awesome!

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Is Herman autistic?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

I'm bout halfway through Moby Dick now (we just saw a kraken), and I'm missing the beginning of the book. Ishmael and Queequeg getting into trouble. Ever since the Pequod set sail the book slowed down immensely and not much has happened in two hundred pages. Let's fight some whales already

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I’m just short of halfway also. There has been some good stuff on the Pequod, but the whale science fact chapters thrown in between stifles it.

I was hoping to read a lot this weekend, but did not happen.

[BurtReynolds]

The middle is a slog. Just skip to the last hundred pages or whatever.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I can’t do that.

[The Argonaut]

Hello, would someone like to help me understand Chapter 106, Ahab's Leg? Am I to understand that

Spoiler: show

Moby Dick ate Ahab's leg on a previous voyage, but Ahab wasn't too distraught over it. He was planning to captain the Pequod like normal and catch some other whales. But then shortly before the launch of the Pequod, he fell down and his peg-leg slipped and ripped his cock off? So now he's super mad at the whale and decides he's going to hunt him and kill him?

Wonderful if true

[epilogue]

You understand that literally no one has read this book right, Argo?

[Simple Torture]

I don’t recall exactly, but if something in Melville seems like it might be a dick, it is probably a dick.

[The Argonaut]

You understand that literally no one has read this book right, Argo?

Then I shall be the first

[epilogue]

You understand that literally no one has read this book right, Argo?

Then I shall be the first

Huzzah!

[The Argonaut]

I don’t recall exactly, but if something in Melville seems like it might be a dick, it is probably a dick.

Chapter 106 is pivotal. It changes the whole book. Ahab was kind of a whiny little loser before but now I understand him.

[epilogue]

I don’t recall exactly, but if something in Melville seems like it might be a dick, it is probably a dick.

Chapter 106 is pivotal. It changes the whole book. Ahab was kind of a whiny little loser before but now I understand him.

This is how I hope RM will see the epilogue account one day