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[counterwest]

honestly the quote from Hamlet feels very much like when you’ve found a paper by a preeminent scholar who has published on the topic you’re researching and the paper turns out to be absolute crap but you include a three word citation to bulk up your works cited page

[counterwest]

welcome whalers i'd like you to meet herman "I'm gonna make a little guy who is obsessed with words so that my readers will never suspect that it is I, Herman Melville the author of this work, who is actually obsessed with words" melville

[counterwest]

hello whalers… once again we have herman “here’s another funny little guy who does nothing but collect quotes so that my readers will never suspect that it is I, Herman Melville the author of this work, who is actually obsessed with quotes” melville. can’t wait to meet even more of his funny little guys….

[counterwest]

welcome whalers i'd like you to meet herman "I'm gonna make a little guy who is obsessed with words so that my readers will never suspect that it is I, Herman Melville the author of this work, who is actually obsessed with words" melville

[thoodleoo]

me seeing the most pathetic, saddest, wettest man you could ever imagine: wow. i'm going to write a thesis about him

[ghostofanonpast]

my friend ishmael is absolutely 100% correct about the sea but also he may be having a manic episode

[counterwest]

Ishmael needs to try ‘crying in the shower’ once in a while

[greenreticule]

just for everyone to brace themselves: moby dick will have a whole lot of the “noble savage” trope going on.

a whole fucking lot of it.

i love moby dick. i’m so excited for whale weekly. i’m excited for tumblr to experience this story.

but i don’t want the racism to catch anyone unprepared.

[counterwest]

I started a whole new blog just for Whale Weekly because I am Perfectly Fine and 100% do not have a problem obsessing and hyperfixating over anything. Also, I didn't want to post as a sideblog and then like and follow as my main blog, I already do that with one sideblog and it super sucks. So, full transparency, this is @midnightmindcave's Moby Dick blog. Please excuse me as I yell and bang cups together about this funny little man who decided to self-medicate with a liberal application of saltwater.

I have read Moby Dick completely once and partially the second time. I am trying to come to Whale Weekly as though it's my first time on the ride. I intend to honor the serialized nature of this project so I generally plan to be spoiler-free, but this novel is almost 200 years old and at some point some things might have to be mentioned.

All or at least most of what I post about the book will be my own bullshit and resemblance to actual academic disquisition will be coincidental because one thing I realized in the decades since college is that it is Okay Fine and Normal to come up with the same ideas about a text as someone else did because that means we both got the author's point.

The author, however, is also very dead.

I don't presume that I'm any kind of actual scholar; this is just fun for me. I've been told that several people on this webbed site have hobbies of different sorts, and writing embarrassingly earnest analysis of various media that I encounter is one of mine.

So that's enough prologue. It's whale time.