#Moby Dick

[plaguedocboi]

Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

[ronk]

It’s why Moby Dick is never used in science classes any more. 🐋

A bit of Moby-Dick oceanography context:

Up until the mid 1870s, it was generally accepted that life could not exist below a depth of 550 meters. This is why some of Ishmael's whale theories are so off and why Ahab pictures the sea floor as a vast wasteland of bones and shipwrecks. 🌊

[the-most-sublime-fool]

mrs hussey thank u for ur service

[mercury50]

"Jayvik Jesus and Judas symbolism" this "Jayvik Jesus and Judas symbolism" that what about the Ahab and Starbuck symbolism? Hmm? Oh my captain my captain?

Also The Line is maybe the most Ahab-coded song ever

[redacted-metallum]

I need to [remembers I shouldn't make suicide jokes] join a whaling crew

[captmuldoon]

wait a second -

MOBY BARBIE??? IN MY BARBIE MOVIE????

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a whale of a good time🐋

[elainiisms]

*me at the club* so does anyone wanna discuss queer undertones in classic literature?

[s0lace-1n-s0l1tude]

[dzgrizzle]

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

[plaguedocboi]

I think Moby Dick artists could use how objectively crazy-looking whale eyes are to their advantage

[call-me-moby-dick]

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would delete hinge and start hanging out on the docks.

[the-most-sublime-fool]

if i had to describe my impression of moby dick so far in two words, i would have to go with "breathtakingly homosexual"

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[lady-inkyrius]

[Source]

God this is a gorgeous way to start a book. I wish more authors and publishers had at least a little bit of fun with their typesetting like this.