Sick
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
I found Melville's poems harder going than Moby-Dick.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
I tried to read Confidence Man, wasn't happening
― I have not yet begun to fart (rip van wanko), Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
that's my least favorite of the novels I've read
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
god this is the best book ever
literally true
i only know about lazarus+dives because they're a recurring symbol in MLK sermons
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
I started trying to read Confidence Man cos Nick Cave was said to be a fan. Think I got a couple of chapters in. Must give it another go. This 30+years later.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
i picked his book of civil war poems recently and it was really a chore, tough going indeed
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Saturday, 25 January 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
christ, this revive scared me, i thought maybe melville had died or something
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
No, but 🚨 SPOILER/TRIGGER ALERT 🚨 I believe Billy Budd, Sailor is now in the public domain.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
Confidence Man is great, you guys mad.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 26 January 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
It was a popular choice when I was in high school, don’t know if that’s a relevant data point.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 January 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
Confidence is really good. Better than his poems, surely.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 January 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
Alfred not liking Confidence Man, liking Ad Astra, world is mad.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 08:37 (four years ago) link
my curvy cetacean wife
This excerpt from a rejection letter to Melville re Moby Dick is just amazing.the more things change... pic.twitter.com/dRaelwdlaG— Andrey (@andreyp_ap) January 21, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 January 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
i have a bookclub w my friend & we are currently reading “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”. i had never read Verne til now & i think i may actively hate him. wtf at this goddamn book. but, my point is thus:i pitched to my friend that we absolutely HAVE to read Moby Dick next bc Melville is such an excellent & enjoyable writer (imo)& she agreeeeeeeeeeed ~snoopy dance~ i have 7 chapters left of Verne & at this point i dont care if the “mystery” of Nemo is that he sneaks onto land at night to steal children to power the submarine with human babies i really fucking hate it & cannot WAIT to read Moby Dick again. it’s been at least 25 years since i read it for American Lit class at Uni
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
Oh man you’re going to have so much fun. It holds up like crazy
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
🐳🐳🐳🐳🐳
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
oddly enough there is an old ray bradbury essay where he compares ahab and nemo, tho not to any particular purpose that i can recall beyond “they’re both captains.”
i like verne actually, at least his best work, but i remember 20,000 leagues being a bit of a slog. he is certainly a strange writer and “wtf” is a reasonable response. he’s most enjoyable when he’s writing about something completely mad — tunneling to the center of the earth, traveling round the solar system on the back of a comet. but moby dick is so good and so unique that it’s hard to compare anything else to it.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
yeah 20,000 leagues feels more like a vehicle for verne to show off about fish taxonomy & the inner workings of an electric submarine (while characters consume as much exotic marine life as possible). definitely light on the adventure that its reputation seemed to promise. i read in that 2019 new yorker article about melville that Moby Dick was inspired by his reading Mary Shelleys “Frankenstein” for the first time while traveling to Englandi’d never heard that before! which makes me like it more
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
i have just started reading moby dick for the first time! No spoilers!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
Moby Dick is a whale.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
also a fish
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
when i was small and my dad read me some (i guess very abridged/adapted) children's version of 2000 leagues i heard the name of nemo's sub as "the naughtiness"
this is the only thing i remember tbh (and it's wrong)
Moby Dick is people!
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
Sorry
*disappointedly flings book across the room*
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/science/math-gresham-sarah-hart.html
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
Moby Dick Restaurant; Northern Mariana Islands, Garapan Saipan PMB658 BOX10000 https://t.co/SWcke0ABbC pic.twitter.com/BWqf8A6BrI— Random Restaurant (@_restaurant_bot) November 21, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be overcurious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face into it. You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain, and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it. And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm. Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to avoid it. Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you. The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is to let this deadly spout alone.
Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish.... I am convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there always goes up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep thoughts. While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head....
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
That mix of levity and casual profundity feels so modern to me.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
where pynchon came from for sure:
We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head? What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people? "But look, Queequeg, ain't that a live eel in your bowl? Where's your harpoon?"Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. The area before the house was paved with clamshells. Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books bound in superior old sharkskin. There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.
Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. The area before the house was paved with clamshells. Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books bound in superior old sharkskin. There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Now I want chowder
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
straight into my veins
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
would anyone buy a copy of MD printed in Comic Sans font?
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm#link2HCH0040
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
at the right price, i would buy anything printed in comic sans
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
that and papyrus are the classic "buy low" font opportunities, because the book buying public is only going to appreciate these classic fonts more and more as the years pass
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
AZORE SAILOR. (Dancing) Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy! Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 November 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
https://imgur.com/0j1EgJP
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/0j1EgJP.png
now available in comic sans font
https://a.co/d/g9XuSaw
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
the link i s to this btw
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMY5LC1L?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_XPN5ERWC7BDT5NDGK4Z1
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
https://hinionge.substack.com/p/late-evening-daydream-of-the-pequod
Excellent piece on the breath in Moby Dick..
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link