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Karoline
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So the body is a house.
The house is a ship is a whale is death.
The ship is a whale is death.
And a whole sermon on Jonah about how to live in the belly of the whale. Preached from a "ship" that's NOT a whale.
Just met Ahab, but since his leg is also a whale's jawbone, like apparently everything else in this novel ...
I'd say we're supposed to pay attention to the whale's belly.
Just a wild guess.
— Jun 15, 2026 01:19PM
The house is a ship is a whale is death.
The ship is a whale is death.
And a whole sermon on Jonah about how to live in the belly of the whale. Preached from a "ship" that's NOT a whale.
Just met Ahab, but since his leg is also a whale's jawbone, like apparently everything else in this novel ...
I'd say we're supposed to pay attention to the whale's belly.
Just a wild guess.
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Karoline
is on page 304 of 608
I have successfully reached the midpoint of the Book About Things That Swallow Men, namely cannibals, the sea, and whales. Which is to say, Death.
Did Terry Pratchett like Moby Dick because I feel like he would.
— Jul 06, 2026 01:41PM
Did Terry Pratchett like Moby Dick because I feel like he would.
Karoline
is on page 228 of 608
is this a novel or is this creatively narrated literary criticism on the symbol of the whale/leviathan across history, science, and literature???
— Jul 03, 2026 10:50AM
Karoline
is on page 58 of 608
the male-marriage image must have hit the imaginations of the original readers very differently than it hits mine . . .
— Jun 12, 2026 04:34PM
Karoline
is on page 10 of 608
I've been very intimidated by this book, but borrowing courage by reading it with my local reading group. Opened the book and started laughing on the first page. Does it continue this way, like a cross between Charles Dickens and Jorge Luis Borges??
— Jun 06, 2026 09:44AM
