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"SSRIs, 'I never do don't worry it still feels good', previous sexual trauma etc etc. Felt like bringing down Moby Dick, did literally everything I could think of; whole process learning what she liked, talking it through to help her relax, took a trip away somewhere nice, fought through cramp, even "
"yes its an L but im not a native speaker ofc there will be books in the canon ive missed. im 200 pages in and im in awe of the prose. really had no idea just how experimental it is"
"The passage on Moby Dick that is read continually is almost a breaking of the fourth wall. Moby Dick's tragedy is a warning that makes you glad of your own life — this is the purpose of tragedy and is expertly accomplished in the Whale. The 'boring parts are a way for the author to hide his pain' is"
"Ahab's musings in the final chapter of Moby Dick: "But let me have one more good round look aloft here at the sea; there's time for that. An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye, and not changed a wink since I first saw it, a boy, from the sand-hills of Nantucket! The same!—the same!—the sa"
"If you've always wanted to (re)read this titan of American literature, come join us at r/RSbookclub"
"anything classic/lindy ie. Moby Dick, the Odyssey, Anna Karenina, Faulkner, Nabokov, etcetera"
"he said his favourite book is Moby Dick and while I've not read it myself I've heard from different people that it essentially reads like a manual on whaling and is too boring to get through"
"i read melville's bartleby this morning. great text; funny, absurd, verbose poignant."
"Way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a whale destroys a whale ship."
"For years I tried emulating the "best" of literary fiction, Melville and Faulkner, Oates and Morrison."