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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
Everything they always told you it was.
1. "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
2. “Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”
3. "Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own."
4. “For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!"
1. "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
2. “Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”
3. "Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own."
4. “For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!"
adventurous
challenging
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What can you say? It’s Moby fucking Dick.
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
“I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should’st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can’st thou endure without being mad?”
A very difficult read. I feel like a frustrated and solitary man on the ocean reading this. Perhaps that is the point?
mit største og vigtigste bedrift. har været i gang med at læse moby-dick eller på at tænke på at læse moby-dick i så lang tid, at det næsten føles uvirkeligt at jeg nu, på denne torsdag i 2025 kl 14.15 er færdig.
sikke en hvid hval. sikke en bog. kan kun anbefale at finde et kæmpe klassisk værk at være urimeligt obsessed med i fire år, til et punkt hvor alle man kender, ved at man er i gang med at læse det, og alle syntes, at man bare skal give op. det er det hele værd endelig at blive færdig. det føltes også meget passende at det har taget så lang tid, at det har været et livs rejse på samme måde som det er for ishmael og resten af skibet i bogen.
faktisk den perfekte bog. alt hvad man kunne klage over (lange passager med ukorrekt hval-fakta, uendelige sidespor, forvirrende båd-jargon), passer jo perfekt ind i fortællingen. og fuck den er smuk. jeg kommer til at savne at læse den. det føles som at sige farvel til en gammel ven. god vind, ishmael <3
sikke en hvid hval. sikke en bog. kan kun anbefale at finde et kæmpe klassisk værk at være urimeligt obsessed med i fire år, til et punkt hvor alle man kender, ved at man er i gang med at læse det, og alle syntes, at man bare skal give op. det er det hele værd endelig at blive færdig. det føltes også meget passende at det har taget så lang tid, at det har været et livs rejse på samme måde som det er for ishmael og resten af skibet i bogen.
faktisk den perfekte bog. alt hvad man kunne klage over (lange passager med ukorrekt hval-fakta, uendelige sidespor, forvirrende båd-jargon), passer jo perfekt ind i fortællingen. og fuck den er smuk. jeg kommer til at savne at læse den. det føles som at sige farvel til en gammel ven. god vind, ishmael <3