undefeated
>>25275958I was hoping that the ending can be read as they did enough damage on the whale for it to go off and die but it seems he really is undefeated.
>>25275958I really need to read this book
Reading Moby Dick getting wet
>>25275978how the hell could you come to that conclusion, the pequod gets absolutely fucking clobbered on the third day of the chase and it wasn't even remotely close.
>>25275958It's actually woke which is why it's shilled so hard
>>25275983It feels amazing, no one writes prose like Melville. Just take it with an open mind and don't be afraid to take a while
>>25276270I'll never get how Melville could start with a dry topic like the rope on a ship, and then the chapter just evolves into something grim and beautiful.
Any chapter you feel like is quite underrated? For me, it's the Mast-Head. Really loving how Ishmael/Melville seamlessly segues a chapter about sailors standing at mast-heads into Biblical myth and history to lionize whalers into epic heroes>Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale, are still entirely incompetent to the business of singing out upon discovering any strange sight. There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of the column of Vendome, stands with arms folded, some one hundred and fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil. Great Washington, too, stands high aloft on his towering main-mast in Baltimore, and like one of Hercules' pillars, his column marks that point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go. Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and ever when most obscured by that London smoke, token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for where there is smoke, must be fire. But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.
>>25276245This. 14 year old me would have considered the prose epic and shakespearian. It's just a dumb pastiche, what a beginner thinks poetry sounds like. Go into the poetry general for a million more examples.
I really like all of Melville's works I read -- Bartleby the Scrivener and the one about the revolting slaveship -- but when I read Moby Dick I found it extremely boring and hard to get through. Might be my own fault idk.
>>25276696It's one of the 'main' chapters imo.
>>25276795Correct. It's why Americans jerk it off so much. They don't know actual poetry
>>25275958Currently reading this. Just finished chapter 3. What an absolute wonderful chapter. What an absolute paranoid overthinker Ishmael is, hahaha. I read the chapter a second time, now aloud, to my gf and she loved it too.
