Now that the dust has settled..What the heck was his problem?
>>25227289Moby Dick
>>25227289He just wanted to spear the demiurge and assert pnuema autonomy.
>>25227289Problem?
He started the day off on the wrong foot.
fuck whales
>>25227344what is with this trend of people trying to be droll or cute on here? is it bots? I fucking hate it. our jokes used to be subtle and/or structural
>>25227358Fine, bitch, have a limerick.There once was a man from NantucketShort a leg because a bull took itHe couldn't let goIn an unfortunate towThat caused him to kick the bucket
>>25227289It was his destiny
>>25227289No where but in this book have i ever read the term monomania before
He’s finally had enough of his lifelong, seemingly futile and meaningless isolation and suffering after losing his leg which proves to be his final tipping point. By investing all of life’s insensible, indifferent suffering into one tangible, killable, hateful whale, he deludes himself into believing he would be this all-conquering, fate-defying Greek hero should he succeed in killing that damn animal. To that end he employs paganistic (the pagan harpooners), and mystic, borderline Satanistic forces (Fedallah) and gradually turns himself away from the grace and vague promises of God and instead embraces the power of nature itself, which is darker yet more tangible. The most dangerous part about his madness is not how delusional but rather how he is *just* sane enough to be methodical about it. Happens to the best of us.Side-note, I really fucking hate how every Moby-Dick discussion now has to have this ecological slant to it, with people *wishing* Ahab and the Pequod crew to die just because they hunt whales, which I find to be completely missing the point of the entire 600+ pages book which expounds again and again exactly why they have to hunt whales (whale oil was just that invaluable back then), how brutal and dangerous whale hunting was at that time, and how much respect and fascination these whale hunters had for their quarry. This insertion of modern politics into a setting that has no need for it I find to be utterly infuriating.
>>25227358what is with this ever presence of bores like you on here? if that provoked HATE in you i can't imagine how you go about your day.
>>25227820Not him, but you sound like a catty woman. At least anon has some standards. It's okay to criticize stuff. In fact it's your duty to strive for better. Be a man.
>>25227798>his final tipping point was his wooden leg troublesAlright.
>>25227289pride
>>25227358good post
>>25227798dont trouble yourself too much about the ecologists. they're like people with colored hair. an obvious sign that you're safe to disregard them
>>25227289He let an obsession blind him to the beauty of life's twists and turns. He was written to juxtapose Ishamel's curiosity. Animosity/obsession/pathos is the enemy of one's enlightenment.
>>25227358Getting this mad over it is gayer.
>>25230000On a Vietnamese papyrus appreciation message board no lessQuads don’t lie
>>25230000Quads of truth
Sail. Trail pale whale. Fail.
>>25227289Maybe Dick?
>>25227798> I really fucking hate how every Moby-Dick discussion now has to have this ecological slant to it, with people *wishing* Ahab and the Pequod crew to die just because they hunt whalesThat’s pretty much every single media literate fag nowadays in a nutshell. They’ll look you in the eye and say “I think Hercules was a heckin asshole” and ignore the whole depth of the commentary on the human condition (as much as that term is overused) because he did one very mean thing that is problematic in 2026
>>25227798there is an ecological slant to Moby-Dick though, it's a perfect avenue for exploring the book. saying there isn't one is just a discredit to Melville. it's not like Moby-Dick is about one specific thing, it uses its premise to explore a wide variety of different themes and criticizing people for wanting to focus on the ecological one is pretty weird. there are many chapters in the book that criticize the practice of whaling.
Inasmuch as he was monomaniac you see! This book sucked lol
>>25227289didnt read the manifesto
>>25227289He was a sailor, Peg, and he lost his leg. Climbing up to the topsails, he lost his leg.
>>25230780I did not deny or really mention anything about an ecological slant to the book; it’s way too encyclopedic in its breadth not to have that slant somewhere; but what I was referring to is people focusing solely on that one and rather obvious aspect and exploit it to negate all the other aspects which make the book such a masterpiece in the first place, not to mention the underlying misanthropy which I find revolting. I’m not stopping you from taking pity on the whales, they are majestic creatures and they definitely deserve protection. But if you force me to choose between a crew of whalemen and a whale, I’ll choose to save the former in a heartbeat.
>>25231076>>25230780Okay upon re-reading my previous post (it’s been quite some time) I did mention an ecological slant, that was on me. My point still stands though.
This is what being a foot shorter than everyone else does to a person.
>>25231280Ahab is obsessed with vengeance because an animal defended itself while he was trying to kill it. He hasn't got a leg to stand on.
>>25227289Ahab's problem was that he was too based for this betacuck world.
