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im fascinated with the idea of a friend group thats just a bunch of extremely powerful beings and just some guy thats just really funny

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I feel like when you say that Moby-Dick is very gay people expect that it is comically and inadvertently homoerotic instead of, like, Queequeg explicitly telling Ishmael that they are married now 🐋

"Call me Ishmael." Moby Dick.

or

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Pride and Prejudice.

"No, but I figured that had to be my name because you're being a Moby Dick."

😂
Fin

Melville's /Moby Dick/ the gift that keeps on giving:

Two dudes in a bar: one says to another:
"Haven't you had enough tequila?"
"I didn't know my name was Ishmael."
"What?"
"I said: I didn't know my name was Ishmael."
"What are you talking about? I didn't call you Ishmael."
1/2

Epilogue:
People discuss what or who Ahab represents, or whether Moby Dick is God or the devil.

These questions are irrelevant to the book, but, like Ishmael, I will not be deterred by that fact or by my lack of qualifications from giving this definitive answer:
15/🐋

At the end of Ch 42 ("The Whiteness of the Whale") Melville/Ishmael refers to Moby Dick as "the Albino Whale". So surely he's white all over?

Someone should make an edition of Moby Dick with a bunch of added chapters where Ishmael talks about all the whale facts we've learned since that book came out.

This may sound pithy or like one of those “did you know that Shakespeare was the original rapper?” cliches, but one that has gradually sunk in deeper with each reading of Moby Dick I’ve done is how frighteningly recognizable Ishmael is as an “I’ve done my own research” guy.

Ishmael in Moby Dick is one of the most interesting ones to ask this about

Started reading Moby Dick on the recommendation of a friend, and I was NOT PREPARED for both a) how funny the first few chapters are, and b) how down bad Ishmael is for Queequeg. Like, nobody tell me if they kiss.

think of a scene from the 1956 “Moby Dick” film, where Ishmael is at a pub, which the name of the pub absolutely didn't help because it was named “The Whale & Ale”) and it was one of the places that got added to the list of spots we wanted to go to. There is also that aspect for me which was that I

More Moby Dick notes:
- “Read the chapters aloud,” I said. “Record them when you do,” I said.
- And then came preternaturally long Chapter 3.
- Ishmael would have loved those Magic Eye drawings from the ‘90s.
- Thank you, Herman Melville, for the plot engine gift of “There Was Only One Bed.”

I've never read Moby Dick until now. The relationship between Ishmael and Queequag is laugh out loud funny. I've been pleasantly surprised

Fredo Corleone Ishmael from Moby Dick
🤝

Never should have “gone fishin’”

Jeremy Clarkson assuring a contestant on WWTBAM that there's nobody in Moby Dick called Ishmael

There's nothing like a confident idiot...

"Well, everyone knows the opening line of Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK is 'Call me Ishmael'. What this film presupposes is... maybe it's not."

Reading Moby Dick for the first time in ages and it’s so freaking funny. I forgot how ridiculous Ishmael is

Doylist analysis of Moby-Dick is fun because a. Ishmael is intentionally written as full of shit about a great many things, and b. Melville himself is also full of shit about a great many things, so every time Ishmael is full of shit you get to play a game of ON WHAT LEVEL is he full of shit?

Moby Dick is legitimately hard to listen to because Ishmael is SO insufferable. Such a tedious narrator. I would push him overboard immediately.

Photo of a passage from Moby-Dick, Ch 1: "And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time."

Okay gang, what do we think Ishmael taught before he set off to sea? 🐋

This was my experience with Moby Dick! Ishmael is so weird and funny

“In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject.” Excerpt From Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Imagine you’re an old whaleman, just returned from years at sea. All you and your mates want is to have a drink and sleep in a real bed, and instead you encounter Ishmael who makes you all talk about the painting on the wall for an hour. 🐋

What stands out to me about today's Moby-Dick reading is how everyone at the Spouter Inn reacts to Ishmael and Queequeg the morning after their "hearts' honeymoon." The others are "amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg." + 🐋

Text from Moby Dick- one character asks Ishmael & Queequeg “Who be ye smokers?” And Ismael answers “Shipped men” before inquiring when the Pequod sails.

Few people know that “to ship” in the sense of “to invent a relationship between two ppl” originated in Herman Melville’s homoerotic masterpiece, Moby Dick. 🐋

Ok so according to Ishmael:

* maybe Moby Dick can teleport

* there is a mountaintop lake in Italy where seagoing shipwrecks periodically float to the surface

* there’s a fountain in Syracuse (in Sicily? In NY?) whose waters travel underground to it from the holy land??

🐋📖

eu deveria fazer isso denovo, é tão divertido :3