One of my favorite Far Sides is the one of Melville (you just see his back, sitting at a writing desk) sort of pulling his hair out. All around him are pieces of paper with “Call me Ed,” or “Call me Bob” etc scribbled on them.
Do people get really emotional at this event? Might they start blubbering, perhaps?
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Boring. pointless Chapter 42 about how the white whale is WHITE and just how WHITE it is and what the significance is of it being WHITE.
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I love that chapter. It’s not exactly integral to the plot, though.
Who gets to read the whale penis chapter?
Or the dorky chapter as we referred to it in high school.
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Do people get really emotional at this event? Might they start blubbering, perhaps?
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We’ll keep the blubbering for the cauldrons - and the folly for young pip.
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:smack: Double :smack:
"Call me Ishamel…"
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Should I point out the misspelling?
Nah.
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A guy I worked with spent ages reading Moby Dick. He used to bring it to work and read it at lunchtime. Some kind of self flagellation I guess. One day I picked up the book and opened it to where he was up to and began to read aloud to everyone at work, The Whiteness of the Whale. Boring. pointless Chapter 42 about how the white whale is WHITE and just how WHITE it is and what the significance is of it being WHITE.
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Someone I know wrote their PhD based on this chapter, and luckily she lectured me when I was learning the novel. It’s also one of my favourite parts of the book.
The best bit of advice I heard when reading this book was that if you find something boring, it’s not against the law to skip forward a bit. I think it’s a crime that high school students are made to read it - it’s totally inappropriate for teenagers, and I also think most high school teachers have no idea what the book is actually about.
ESKIMO!
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Should I point out the misspelling?
Nah.
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Sausage fingers…get’s me every time…
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The best bit of advice I heard when reading this book was that if you find something boring, it’s not against the law to skip forward a bit. I think it’s a crime that high school students are made to read it - it’s totally inappropriate for teenagers, and I also think most high school teachers have no idea what the book is actually about.
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I’ve been a complete bibliophile my whole life, and I cannot say how much I wish they saved Moby Dick until College - it would have been appreciated more by some. Then again, I was made to read Tolkien at 9 by my older brother…[not made of course…coerced]