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Ending on the divine magnet letter is a move calculated to hurt me personally

God.

NOOOOOOOOOOO

YESSSSSSSSSSS

My jaw actually dropped I need mouse bites to live this is afdghaklhfafdjkbg

Fellas is it platonic to discuss sexual sins and what constitutes an affair with the author you uprooted your entire life for

Melville rereading Hawthorne’s letter obsessively to see if there’s any double meaning he’s just like me reading my professor’s emails except I’m checking whether they hate me and he’s checking. Well we know what he’s checking

Literally getting into the romance genre by sheer singular virtue of my Moby-Dick hyperfixation

Stop this meeting is so cute they've got me kicking my feet and giggling

I'm gonna need you guys to look away for a while.

Love that everyone 'knows' this book starts 'Call me Ishmael' when in fact you have to sit through 51 pages of Melville giving you his whale citations before you get to that point.

On a more serious analytical note, I LOVE the contrast of the last two extracts with 'Nantucket Song's optimism at the hunt being immediately undercut by 'Whale Song' establishing the whale as 'King of the boundless sea.' Get their ass

47 pages in. Still on the extracts section. Reference to the Right Whale I LOVE Right whales they're my second favourite. Already promising start.