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While I do love the out of context gay spermaceti chapter memes I must say. It is vastly more disorienting in context. The previous chapter is terrifying. Pip falls out of the boat and just gets left behind, in the middle of the ocean with no land or ships in sight, for possibly hours until he gets found and rescued. He almost dies. He sees god. His mind is broken and everyone thinks he’s insane. It is cosmic horror before that was even a genre! And then Ishmael is done talking about that and having a gay whaler orgy on the sperm-squeezing deck. This book changes tone so fast it makes you seasick.
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What if we held hands in the Sperm Whale Oil 🥺
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ismael's paragraphs about how horny sperm makes him, but at a drive-thru
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Moby Dick: the cassock
I’m very excited about this chapter.
Ok so there’s a whale body part in the lee scuppers and Ishmael makes a lot of inferences but to be clear: it’s a penis. It’s about a foot in diameter, it’s north of six feet long. The mincer carefully peels it, inverts and dries the skin, and then trims the tip bud adds armholes so he’s wearing an apron made of whale penis skin.
He needs this because he’s about to rapidly slice whale fat into long thin sheets so it can be rendered and boiled. He’s standing above everyone tending the pots of rendering fat, wearing a black tube, slicing the fat as fast and as thin as he can. The people below him shout up at him to cut the fat as thinly as the pages of a bible.
You know how there’s an ongoing theme in the book of abandonment by God and dependence on the fickle goodwill of your colleagues? Here the closest thing to church we’ve seen since they were on land is a man butchering a whale, wearing the whales penis-skin to protect himself from his own blade — its weirdly profane.
I’m sure there’s a penis metaphor I’m not getting — but on the Pequod love and sexuality seems inexorably tied to butchery (but in a goofy way)
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whaleweekly · 2 months
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WHALE PENIS RAINCOAT DAY
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unaccountable cone
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call me a child if you must but this chapter is impossible to get through with a straight face
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whale weekly folks are at the squeeze of the hand chapter happy gay whaler sex saturday to all who celebrate. happy have an orgy on deck day
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a little bit offended that the whale weekly girlies are posting so much more about the sperm when not a chapter before everything had gone Full Cosmic Horror. but the sperm is really funny though
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whaleweekly · 3 months
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fellas is it gay
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it's here
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happy god's foot upon the treadle of the loom day to all who celebrate
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also this job seems to be absolutely riddled with death traps, they can’t do anything without someone almost dying
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whaleweekly · 3 months
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Me: time to catch up on some classic literature
Ishmael: in this chapter I am going to explain why whales would look stupid if they had noses
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herman melville you cannot simply say that the vertebrae are undeveloped skulls and move on
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Ishmael's radical new theory that every story is about whales EXCEPT for Jonah
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