#herman-melville

[quotelr]

But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

[saranilssonbooks]

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. 🌊

[s0lace-1n-s0l1tude]

[dzgrizzle]

[even-in-arcadia]

neither alive nor dead but a secret third thing (at sea)

[suddenly-frankenstein]

moby-dick

[iwamimimimi]

[sashayed]

i'm finally reading moby dick and there's a lot i didn't know about it such as that the first several dozen chapters are very funny! to me ol Call Me Ishmael has a kind of "what if bertie wooster were 1. american 2. competent" narrative vibe, although admittedly i am what one professor once called an "idiosyncratic" reader, meaning u should not trust anything i say. anyway the book i THOUGHT "moby dick" was going to be doesn't start until captain ahab finally stumps upstairs in chapter 36 and then boy does it ever, because he has I Am In A Tragedy disease and it is contagious and now everyone who was normal two pages ago is monologuing ominously in the dead of night. did you guys know herman melville is a very good writer? have you heard about this? he really knows that if you encounter someone who has you doing soliloquies you should Leave. if you encounter that person while you are on a boat in the middle of the 19th century ocean you are fucked for sure. poor starbuck is out here like "i really would prefer to be in a story about doing my Fucking Job"

[nevver]

You're gonna need a bigger boat, Gérard DuBois

[aksiris]

Some illustrations for “Moby Dick”

[string-star-lights]

laid in bed last night thinking about how herman melville died before humans knew about whale songs, or how they sleep, or about whale falls, or that they can be gay… he would have loved them so much

[sleepy-ace-dragon]

So we all know afab and amab, what does this make captain ahab? Assigned hater?

[soulsmusings]

FromSoftware loves to draw upon literary sources for inspiration—The King in Yellow, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," Dracula, Don Quixote, and so on.

But even I was surprised to see them recreate Moby Dick as a dragon, complete with his own Captain Ahab.

[deadpanwalking]

meet me at the peabody essex museum melville exhibit (draw me ishmael: the book arts of moby dick) in 15 minutes if you want an asskicking

[karhun-kallo]

niche and self indulgent valentines that cater to me specifically (if they cater to you as well, i will be so happy)

[booty-uprooter]

rip herman melville you would've loved adding several chapters about whale falls to moby dick