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that too

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CLR James, writing while detained as an illegal immigrant on Ellis Island in 1952

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And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I’m a crow

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First episode comes out on Thursday. I'm busy labouring to give birth to it, in the deeps

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as a whale, I find both Mitchell's and Jones' accents frankly unlistenable

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you're dick

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this is who runs this account

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The thing about Moby-Dick is that all of American modernity is prefigured in it. The Civil War, Jim Crow, civil rights, BLM? In Moby-Dick. The Manhattan Project, the cold war? Yep, Moby-Dick. Trump, the battle of Minneapolis, the Epstein files? Baby you'd better believe that shit is in Moby-Dick

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IT BEGINS

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The Whale Pod can confirm that Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville is funny as FUCK

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read along with us! we're using the Penguin Classics edition

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The Whale Pod can confirm that William McGonagall's poem about The Famous Tay Whale is neither as good nor as long as 'Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale' by Herman Melville

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Hello. This is The Whale Pod: a podcast where a Welshman and a Geordie read Herman Melville's leviathanic 1851 opus 'Moby-Dick' and try to work out what it's all about. Featuring capitalism, empire, race, gender, sex, God, money, fascism, violence, obsession, America, and absolutely loads of whales

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