Moby Dick
A Abandoned, Literature, 19th Century book. Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian....
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel's narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of whales,...
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- Pages: 651 pages
- ISBN: 9781566192637 / 1566192633
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale // Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras. Herman Melville, Moby Dick // Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale //
Everyone eventually comes across the White Whale in one form or another. The trick is to not keep its attention for too long.*****Avast! Dost thee have a five spot thou can see thyself parting ways with?No?Jibberjab up the wigwam! Cuisinart the poopdeck!What's that ye say? Thou canst not make heads nor tails of what I sayeth? Here then.... MI LIBRO PREFERIDO. POR SIEMPRE. This is a curious and unwieldy book. At times (and too frequently) it reads like the more excruciatingly detailed scenes of Robinson Crusoe; at others the zany songs, goofy scenes, and curious characters prove Pynchon and DFW to be no pioneers in their lighthearted pursuits. The descriptive prose occasionally builds into an alliterative...
