That is indeed a screenshot of a post. Well done?
Dicks out for Moby!
Legs out for Captain Ahab.
For a while my friends had a band called the tricky dicks.
The logo was Nixon riding a white sperm whale.
My son is reading it right now, and he loves it. He’s just reading it on his own, no class or anything. He’s been moving steadily through the classics in the last few years.
I thought Dickheads were those who followed Phillip K. Dick and all things Dickian.
Ah, the Dickhead split! We needn’t be adversaries, we are all Dickheads at the end of the day!
Well it beats being a Dickens fan/associate, or Dickensass as we call ourselves
Somewhere on a dark corner of the internet, someone is writing Moby Dick erotica right now.
Where 👀👀👀
(Asking for a friend)
"Fuck me Ismael… " Etc etc
Shout out to the free Librivox recording read by Stewart Wills, it is how I listened to the book and I recommend it.
aaaaah shiit I’m gonna be listening to this baby for MONTHS!
My favorite part of Moby Dick is the chapter titled The Prairie.
In it, Melville basically attributes the size/wrinkles in a forehead to the wisdom/greatness of that being. He goes on to describe the foreheads of various lesser species, and then lists influential men with big, wrinkled foreheads (Shakespeare, as an example), comparing the undulations in these splendid wise men’s foreheads to the undulations of a prairie and their splendor. Then, he asks the reader to consider the gravitas of a Sperm Whale’s forehead.
It’s literally the best fucking thing I’ve ever read and it’s crazy that nobody else lauds this passage as I do.
Unironically a great novel. If you can understand Moby Dick, you can understand the first 200 years of American history.
I had to quit at like 50 pages in man. It’s just a tough read, and I powered through war and peace.
I’ve had it on my reading list for over a decade… One day I’ll get to it. Does it still hold up?
After 170 years? A story about the young working class seeking simple comforts through ruthless ecological exploitation? And for this humble crew to be swept up in a prideful crusade towards wealth and glory lead by a charismatic madman intent on killing God? And this crusade culminates in a calamity that destroys everything their exploitative labors sought to build?
I can’t think of any modern parallels. But if one were to arise, I could see a certain sympathetic appeal.
Has anyone here actually read the book?
It’s not exactly a page-turner.
It’s one of the very small number of books to defeat me. The narrative part was okay but every other chapter was full of wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales and their lives and I just couldn’t take it.
wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales
ngl I think I might find that interesting…
It is the book that completely changed the way I view literature. My favorite book of all time. It is beautiful, funny, bizarre, and tragic.
It is a page-turner; in fact it’s a banger. It’s an incredible book
Is there any way you can describe the appeal more specifically? I hated it but I’m trying to understand what people see in it.
I was all aboard the Moby Dick train when I tried reading it, and yeah hundreds of pages about whale phlegm really did take the piss out of my vinegar
You need to get on board for what is, at its heart, a blog about being a whaler in the 19th century. The story isn’t gripping in the sense of a two minute movie trailer, but it does draw you in and lead you to care about a bunch of the crew as it drags on. It is the quintessential “slow burn” novel.
But it isn’t even the worst on that front. Any Brian Sanderson novel is going to have a similar “omg, is this going anywhere? And why won’t they just kiss already? Damn, now I know entirely too much about an obscure
magic systemmethodology of turning whale cum into lighter fluid” element.One book I could argue genuinely reads better on audiobook when you’re stuck in traffic for two hours a day.
It was written & read back in the days when people’s favorite pastime was literature. Ain’t nobody got time for that now.
Only the truly literate are dickheads round these parts that’s why they call me Ishmael.
I’m more a “crop your screenshots for posts” dickhead.
dickheads come in many shapes and forms
This dick is out. I like philip k dick
Flow My Tears, the Dickman Said 😭
@Godric alt text
“The Moby Dick Fandom is dying”
moby dick pictured about to wreck a dinghy
"reblog if youre still a true dickhead 🐳 "Thanks, dickhead :)
I will upvote this if anybody who is using a screen reader upvotes it.
@tomiant its not there for you, silly goat, it was so i could reblog this where i know blind fraggle hangs out
silly goat
alright then, I will upvote it. But now if they read the caption they’ll have to read this stuff too!
na, dumb book
HMFL!
Hold my fucking lager?
Pfft.
Sorry, kid. What is it then.
