blog
blog
Out of context: Reply #62055
- Started
- Last post
- 75,602 Responses
- stoplying0
Started reading "Moby Dick". I don't hate it.
- hang in there, ishmael, great book.Gnash
- i hated itscarabin
- but have pet cockroaches, so ya.Gnash
- only because it seemed like a ton of technical stuff about boats and sailing that i didn't really care about. if i were into that stuff it would've been betterscarabin
- (i was jk'ing, btw)) the homeric epics were similar. homer went into incredible detail about the ships, etc.Gnash
- melville uses that device, among others, to give the story an epic tone.Gnash
- yeahscarabin
- the technical chapters are both to paint the authenticity of the voyage/occupation, and also to serve as a metaphorical framework for several themes in the bookgarbage
- the book itself is voyage, and is an edifying work if you make it to the end.garbage