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by scop 435 days ago
Obligatory comment: Moby Dick is a work of stunning glory and if you think you can abridge it you are missing the entire point.
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Bored man watches sad man fight large white man. The survivors leave.
An amputee gets closure, we hope.
In Anger: a theologically-confused tale of nominative determinism.
Once upon a time, I ran out of money and was feeling kinda suicidal, so I thought, hey, why not take up whaling? and oh man, the captain. Where to begin? His white whale was an actual white whale. Not a beluga: I mean a sperm whale, horrifyingly white, and bigger than any other! And he had the most interesting conversations when he thought I wasn't listening… Anyway, I spent much of the voyage giving my religious opinions to anyone who'd listen. (I also have opinions about vegetarianism! And whiteness!) Alas, each who listened has drowned himself. Or was it God who drowned them? I have opinions on that, too!