SEXY DANCER: why do you like Moby Dick so much?

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Just wondering. I'm reading it now and finding it kind of tedious.

― pwner of a lonely heart (pr00de), Saturday, 2 July 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

moby dick is brilliant and one of the greatest novels ever -- all encompassing and the language is awesome. Melville is the MAN.

― jack cole, a senior citizen who lives alone with his cat (jackcole), Saturday, 2 July 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

can't wait for the parody thread

― larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 2 July 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, man. Maybe my tastes are too contemporary or something, but I read the three chapters about paintings of whales and think, What the hell is this doing here??

― pwner of a lonely heart (pr00de), Saturday, 2 July 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,--Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fireside, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 3 July 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

http://home.teleport.com/~rasputin/ImageFiles/BeavisButthead.jpg

― pwner of a lonely heart (pr00de), Sunday, 3 July 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, I would hate to teach this in high school.

― pwner of a lonely heart (pr00de), Sunday, 3 July 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

wtf? that shit is actually in the book?

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 3 July 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

kinda weird.

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 3 July 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

because bonham played with his hands, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 3 July 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

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