M(ob)y Dick

>>25248723
BLASPHEMY

is this book like godzilla (roland emrich) but whaled? does new york get it, again?

I can't believe that the best novel ever written was written by an American. It offends me.

>>25249592
If it makes you feel any better its influences are all mostly 17th century British.

>>25249609
lmao, the influences span the entire western cannon

Piece of shit that doesn't get good until the last three chapters.
>>25248681
>My Bible
So your religion is basic bitch New England humanism and noble savage worship? Sounds fuckng gay.

>>25248681
It's an anti-gospel, Ishmael's testament of Ahab's passion. All we can do is have faith that the Pequod and its crew will some day rise again

>>25249636
>Piece of shit that doesn't get good until the last three chapters
Is this true? I am about 500 pages in and Ahab has appeared in like 20 at most so far, and he is clearly not the focus

>>25249675
Because the main character is Moby Dock, he's the focus here

>>25250627
The main character is nature
>Goethe said that he wanted, as a writer, to know what it is like to be a woman. But Melville sometimes makes you feel that he knows, as a writer, what it is like to be the eyes of the rock, the magnitude of the whale, the scalding sea, the dreams that lie buried in the Pacific. It is all, of course, seen through human eyes — yet there is in Melville a cold, final, ferocious hopelessness, a kind of ecstatic masochism, that delights in punishing man, in heaping coals on his head, in drowning him. You see it in the scene of the whale running through the herd with an open harpoon in his body, cutting down his own; in the sharks eating at their own entrails and voiding from them in the same convulsion; in the terrible picture of Pip the cabin boy jumping out of the boat in fright and left on the Pacific to go crazy; in Queequeg falling into the “honey head” of the whale; in the ropes that suddenly whir up from the spindles and carry you off; in the final awesome picture of the whale butting its head against the Pequod.
>In all these scenes there is an ecstasy in horror, the horror of nature in itself, nature “pure,” without God or man: the void. It is symbolized by the whiteness of the whale, the whiteness that is not so much a color as the absence of color. ‟Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?” And it is this picture of existence as one where man has only a peephole on the mystery itself, that constitutes the most remarkable achievement of Melville’s genius. For as in the meditation on the whiteness of the whale, it becomes an uncanny attempt to come to grips with nature as it might be conceived with man entirely left out; or, what amounts to the same thing, with man losing his humanity and being exclusively responsive to primitive and racial memories, to the trackless fathomless nothing that has been from the beginning, to the very essence of a beginning that, in contradiction to all man’s scriptures, had no divine history, no definite locus, but just was — with man slipped into the picture much later.

>>25248681
So you love whale taxonomy huh?

>>25249592
Silence, Pierre

>>25248681
I'm genuinely curious for a non-trollish answer.
Why are Ishmael and Queequog so gay? They get married, they play footsies, and they blush while holding hands in a pile of whale semen.
I get that it's supposed to be symbolizing friendship surpassing race, culture, and religion, but why is it so homosexual?

>>25249592
You think the best novel is American because you're as stupid as Americans.

>>25250761
>symbolizing friendship
not really
Queequeg is the savage part of Ishmael's soul, it's a common symbol of readiness for the spiritual voyage.
compare with Blake's Milton and Jerusalem where the protagonist have to marry/commune with his demonic other self.

>>25250766
Name 5 better novels