Jenny’s Reviews > In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex > Status Update

captain pollard. NO NO NO do NOT listen to them. 🥲😭😭

they’re going to die!!!!!!

that really is utterly disastrous. and it only gets worse i know it

am feeling their panic myself

I suspect some serious stuff is about to go down

i am enraged by Chappel’s stupidity

“In their dedication to killing sperm whales thr Nantucketers had developed a system of social relationships that mimicked those of their prey.”

damn

I’ve never read Moby Dick (which is supposedly inspired by this tragedy) so I don’t really know what happened to the Essex but from all this foreshadowing I know one thing: these lads are absolutely cooked

“A Nantucketer didn’t just go for a walk on a Sunday afternoon, he went on a ‘rantum scoot,’ which meant an excursion with no definite destination”

not the rantum scoot 💀

the secret code for whittling/ job seeking is very interesting