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Aren't you a little young to be reading Moby Dick?
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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I'm out of the loop on this one but I will seize the opportunity to say all the bad things I think about that book.
First, the writing is overly complicated with no other apparent objective than to confuse the reader with extremely long and circumvented sentences.
Second, the story is constantly chopped with long and boring chapters that are solely informative on various aspects of sperm whale anatomy, ecology, behavior (riddled with dated errors andmisinterpretations), as well as whaling specifics, ranging from the work of the carpenter to the process of removing the head of whales.
The first duty of a story is to entertain, its second is to instruct. Good writers manage to do both seamlessly. Melville makes a total messout of it, breaking the fourth wall when explaining how hard it is to collect accurate information, citing his sources in the body of the texte, and completely losing the interest of the reader in the process.
There.
I'm trying to finish it for the sake of it. It is painful.
Wrong, the primary duty of a story is to make the author money. MD was originally published serially in a magazine, and that's why it goes on for so long.
And paid by the word!
OK, now I get it! Good old capitalism strikes again
This is La'an Noonien-Singh comforting a young Khan, her ancestor, from the Strange New Worlds episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Khan would grow up to regularly misquote Moby Dick while fighting Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
(And the meme parodies a line in The Wrath of Khan.)
OK, thanks! As a quasi alien to the Star Trek universe, I humbly accept your explanation!
I've heard it described as America's Bible.
We do seem to quote it a lot. I've read the Bible - it's the most famous work on Earth by far, and I actually enjoyed it (I'm extremely weird I know:-P) - but Moby Dick... I'm not sure that I ever want to, especially after reading the comments in this thread.
Wait, Is nobody else gonna post it?!?
Fine I will....!
Spoiler
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120756/What the?