Alexa’s Reviews > Moby-Dick > Status Update

It’s just insane to me that the structure of the narrative is like:

- random facts about life at sea
- random facts about whales
- my buddy got sick and then decided not to be sick antmore
- life at sea
- so my boss has sworn an unholy blood oath with three of my colleagues
- more facts about life at sea

Ishmael going on and on about how whales can never go extinct… not depressing at all 🌚

Okay some absolute bangers in this section, some of my favorites without context:

- Stubb’s EPIC PRANK on some FRENCH FOOLS 🤪
- Pip meeting God at work
- Ahab being completely unfazed by meeting another captain who, unlike him, has apparently touched grass

But most of all:
- Squeezing sperm with the boys

“And thus there seems a reason in all things, even in law.” Savage fish-based SLAM DUNK on the monarchy by my man Ishmael here tbh

The virgin German vs. The chad Nantucketer

Not Ishmael Measurehead-moding

What if we were connected by the monkey-rope…. and we were both men 😳

Stubb displaying some Laios Dungeon Meshi-ass behavior here

Love Ishmael pleading the reader not to interpret the whale as an allegory in the whale-allegory book

Imagine being a butterless man. Could NOT be me.