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"'Hast seen the White Whale?'
'See you this?' and withdrawing it from the folds that had hidden it, he held up a white arm of sperm whale bone, terminating in a wooden head like a mallet.
'Man my boat!' cried Ahab, impetuously, and tossing about the oars near him- 'Stand by to lower!'"

That's the funniest thing in this book so far. I bet Ahab was so offended his delimbing wasn't special to Moby

"The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul." woooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh Ish knows I LOVE a holy fool character and he made one up for me :,) poor Pip tho

“Oh man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.”

Iiiissssshhhhhhhhhh

I’m on the things that are white chapter… it’s about things that are white… and the symbolism of the whiteness of the things… my friend Ish is taking me places I wouldn’t even go with a gun…

He had me with the patricide he lost me with the talking to a 13 year old about socialism for 20 pages. At least he has a cool dog though. Also why is every woman the most annoying dramatic person on the planet did Dostoyevsky hate women what’s going on

SOMETHING IS FINALLY HAPPENING THANK YOU GOD ITS GETTING JUICY THERES BLOOD EVERYWHERE

I obviously don’t know Russian but I am so glad the translators decided on the word “buffoon” when describing Fyodor Pavlovich. We need to start calling people buffoons again.

This book should be called Alexei and the Terrible No Good Very Bad Day. His elder is dying. His brothers def want to kill their dad. Some kids threw rocks at him. It’s so sad.