#moby dick

[marzipan-alligator]

[bluarlequinno]

Reading through Moby Dick

[probably-an-alien]

I just finished Moby Dick.

Man, this book has destroyed me.

I feel all gutted and wrung out emotionally.

During those last few exhilarating chapters I so so wished that old Ahab could have relented and turned back to Nantucket, although I knew the ending already. I wished Starbuck could have seen his wife and child again and that Queequeg could have safely come back to port together with Ishmael. I knew it could not be, yet treacherous hope still made me yearn for a better ending for the Pequod and her crew.

[eep-blue-sea]

(I spent way too long on this😭)

[carolinawrenn]

Been thinking about how Moby Dick feels not so much like cosmic horror as psychological horror. Ahab can't let go of the wrong that was done to him and so becomes a monster. His vengeance is more important to him than his son, than his wife, than the lives of his crew. And because Ishmael has painted such vivid portraits of his crewmates, we see those men as individuals with rich lives and loves of their own--all sacrificed to Ahab's obsession. But it's also so easy to see how that happens all the time. Most people don't kill 30 other people in a doomed quest, but you do see people damage their families, hurt their loved ones and warp their own morality because they can't move on from something bad that happened to them. We all have it in us to become Ahab in some way or another.

[kleinergeist]

What if we were at the Spouter-Inn 🤔🤔 but there was only one bed 😳😳 and we were both whalemen 😳😳😳😳

[gaygollum]

i think i will never be the same after finishing moby dick like what the HELL do you mean ishmael only survives because of queequeg’s coffin…….. LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN

[ashipwreckcoast]

i could, in theory, buy a tofu press

[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🐋

[dzgrizzle]

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

[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.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Merry whales in the log of the ship Susan, kept by Reuben Russell. Nantucket Historical AssociationPublic Domain

[elainiisms]

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