#reading moby dick

[ghost-in-the-library]

more books should open with a commonplace collection of quotes about the subject matter

[lifelinebooks]

OKAY I'M FINALLY REREADING MOBY DICK

And catching up to Whale Weekly

I've decided to summarize each chapter because this book is hilarious and I think I'm funny

SO! Part 1/? Chapters 1-10

Ch 1: I'm Ishmael and I long for the sweet kiss of the sea

Ch 2: I'm Ishmael and I'm also poor

Ch 3: I'm not gay but I've agreed to share a bed with a man I don't know. Also, again, not gay, but this big strapping seaman in the common room is making me Question Things

Ch 4: I'm not gay but I can't help but watch my roommate get dressed after we spooned this morning

Ch 5: oh wow there are a lot of hot sailors at breakfast this morning

Ch 6: hmm not sure what I think of all these Natives but their fashion sense is On Point. New Bedford really is a queer place

Ch 7: I better go to church--oh look its my hot roommate whom I spooned with only this morning!

Ch 8: I'm deeply affected by the architecture of this pulpit

Ch 9: are all Father Mapple's sermons nautical themed?

Ch 10: So update on the gay thing: I'm in love with my roommate even though I've only known him one day--oh by the way we're married now

Part 2 |

[howtheriddlergothisname]

So when I first started conceiving of characters who are 'dead ghosts walking' the concept was stories that start by showing/telling the audience that a character is dead (Ross being told that the crews are dead and gone in the opening of The Terror, Leroux presenting Erik's skeleton in F de l'O) and how does awareness of this death influence the way a reader/viewer interacts with the character knowing that they are going to die, how does this inevitability of this fate influence the way we understand the themes and genre of the story, etc?

BUT, I just started Moby-Dick and now I have to think about it the other way, how does knowing that a character survives to tell about it influence the story and the reader?

[howtheriddlergothisname]

Herman Melville in 1851 while people are literally looking for the lost Franklin Expedition: "RIP to those guys but whales are different"

[howtheriddlergothisname]

French history guy reading Moby-Dick

[zerosugarboydinner]

when yuoy can't sleep but ur too tired to read

[soupstreet]

WOOH BOY im really down the mermaid rabbit holea

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]