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?
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.
We’ll keep the blubbering for the cauldrons - and the folly for young pip.
Should I point out the misspelling?
Nah.
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!
Sausage fingers…get’s me every time…
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]