#but my heart simply does go out to Melville? there’s falling for your straight bestie and then there’s falling for Hawthorne | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

marnz · 2 years

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thinking about my insane English prof who was taken aback when I said the first 20 chapters of Moby Dick were homoerotic, and then said “I don’t think you have to read it that way.”

Sir. My guy. Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed and it’s referred to as their marriage bed. In the morning Queequeg’s tomahawk is referred to as their baby. They press their foreheads together and say they are like a married couple. What other way am I supposed to read it?

#Moby Dick #he really gal pal’d them…#also the way he talked about Herman Melville was like. in hindsight extremely fucking weird #some people…become sailors…because they want to have gay sex. I think Melville knew what he was doing ok #same prof was like ‘yeah Walt Whitman was gay but he never acted on it’ okay first of all #whether he ~acted on~ is irrelevant #second of all. I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT #anyway I’m not an Americanist or whatever the ppl who study this lit are called #but my heart simply does go out to Melville? there’s falling for your straight bestie and then there’s falling for Hawthorne #currently

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