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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > BotM DECEMBER: MOBY DIIIIIICK
 
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Morty the Mad
Jul 24, 2002

GOOD GOD, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? WHY ARE YOU TAKING YOUR PANTS OFF? IS THIS A GODDAMN NUDIST COLONY? ARE WE ABOUT TO TAKE A SHOWER
This is probably my favorite piece of American literature. I've had the privilege of teaching it at the undergraduate level (in a poli sci department), and it is as rich and deep a text as you could want for analysis. However, what I love most about it is simply the power and elegance of the prose: the entire chapter on the whiteness of the whale, Ahab's lament to the dead whale's head, the description of Pip falling overboard and going mad, etc. These meandering, philosophical interludes that don't advance the plot are what drive some readers of this book crazy (chapter on cetology/scientific classification, anyone?), but they're also where Melville is at his absolute best and most beautiful.

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