Like Dracula, Moby Dick has multiple terrible Wordsworth covers. And if you think they’d get better with each go… you’d be wrong. #books #mobydick #wordsworth
Like Dracula, Moby Dick has multiple terrible Wordsworth covers. And if you think they’d get better with each go… you’d be wrong. #books #mobydick #wordsworth
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"#Whaling was also one of the few industries where #BlackAmericans, both free and formerly #enslaved, could make money and become wealthy. Individuals of all backgrounds could rise through the whaling industry ranks based on skill rather than birth."
I'm happy to give three cheers to #MobyDick's #Daggoo, #Tashtego and #Queequeg.
The design of the set is pretty cool. There’s a lot of ropes and ladders for climbing.
I’m not used to listening to opera in English so that’s an adjustment.
But the music is great. #MobyDick
Listen at www.discountstorytime.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy!
On turning Moby-Dick into an opera. "one of the things that’s so profound about Moby-Dick, is that when you drop the stone into the pond, it ripples out in an asymmetric way." -- Gene Scheer
AHAB - All Hermans Are Bastards
Humpback whale swallows and then spits out kayaker off Chile coast
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-14/whale-swallows-and-spits-out-kayaker-in-chile/104935882
Ah, to be a simple sea captain that simply hates an animal. That's the dream!
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#RandomVignettes 138. Ishmael & Queequeg
Stubbs dining out, a choice piece.
Ich bin ein großer Moby Dick-Fan & mir hat diese Folge sehr viel Spaß gemacht. Und selbst wenn man das Buch noch nicht gelesen hat, kann man hier, glaube ich, gut folgen & wird auch sehr viel lachen. Z. Bsp. über sehr schlimme Puns, eine Spezialität des Podcasts. (Der eh sehr empfehlenswert ist, wenn man gerne Leuten zuhört, die witzig & informativ über Literatur reden.)
#literatur #podcast #mobydick #reading #bookstodon https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/backlisted/id1063252175?i=1000681610218
“Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge.”
- Herman Melville
Okay I finished #OliverTwist & I'm onto my next classic, #MobyDick
On chapter 11 and I'm on #AO3 for some #Queequeg #Ishmael slash bc they're cute af
Watching the Christmas movie "In The Heart Of The Sea"
Moby Dick is a monstor of excellence in American literature. It has been mined mostly for action scenes; from kids books and cartoons to movies. It's actually rare first-hand description of life on whaling ships, and punch lines of long asides prove it is a social-commentary comedy.
Melville's whaling-memior was rejected as infeasible, so he made it a fiction. I was thunder-struck when 'rereading' by audio-book.