This is the thread where J.D. tries to read "Moby-Dick."

"The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed; as in my wild wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving such valuable statistics."

i guess it goes on a little longer later, but the first Cetology chapter was like 14 pages and it was really interesting. was expecting it to be a dead dry 50 pages or something.

This is the first fat 19th century book I really love (almost all of my faves tend to be small-ish: Lermontov, Nerval, von Kleist, Lenz). Maybe Portrait of a Lady or The Devils.

The Moby Dick twitter account is wonderful. As well as comments on here and Melville's The Confidence Man it was the thing that actually made me try it. Need to read Bartleby next.

"First, we must ask, does it have to be a whale?"#RejectionLetterQuote for Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville. pic.twitter.com/WZBVCrb2RE

— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 3, 2018

^^^this is the edition i have -- wit the rockwell kent illustrations -- and it's lovely

been working my way through this, they finally mentioned the whale and i'm 400 iPad pages in

the book is awesome tho

the "whiteness of the whale" chapter was...quite something.

hit my stopping point last night at the end of chapter 31, tonight we get CETOLOGY.

If y'all want fun, read Clarel.