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“He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.”

I need to be on top of a mast urgently

I have literally read entire romance novels less romantic than whatever Ishmael and Queequeg have going on within thirty pages of meeting each other

Feeling moderately crazy about the way ahab is made out to be both the ship and the whale. Also feeling crazy about the sperm barrel scene but in a different way what was that about

Herman Melville will casually suggest that if we could persuade God to come down to earth then the sperm whale could take his throne in heaven and then follow that up with a chapter called The Nut. Incredible job Herman please keep telling me your blasphemous whale thoughts