"In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes. At its utmost expansion in the full grown whale, the tail will considerably exceed twenty feet across." this guy likes whales a lot, maybe even too much #MobyDick #Literature
Closeup of white and pink fruit tree blossoms.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he had been screwed down to the floor. But as soon as the first glimpse of sun entered the window,...
#ClassicLiterature #spring 🌱
Random Trek: "Moby Dick" (1998) with Ken and Scott Ferguson
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#StarTrek #MobyDick #PatrickStewart
A single yellow magnolia flower on a tiny tree inside a walled garden.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Fir heaven's sake, Queequeg, get up and shake yourself; get up and have some supper. You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg." But not a word did he reply.
Despairing of him, therefore, I determined to go to bed and to ....
#magnolia 🌱 #yellow #ClassicLiterature
#MobyDick
#HermanMelville
“Pip…I won't pick you up if you jump…We can't afford to lose whales…a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.…”
Hereby…Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal….
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
#MobyDick
#HermanMelville
Not drowned…Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths,where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes…Pip saw…God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom,and spoke it;and therefore his shipmates called him mad.
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
Did I just read a fat joke at the expense of Samuel Johnson?! #MobyDick
One thing that doesn't come up about #MobyDick in mainstream discourse is what a bullshit artist/tall tale yarn spinner Ishmael is presented as.
My four must-see plays this season:
1. #DeathofaSalesman (Winter Garden Theatre)
2. #DogDayAfternoon (August Wilson Theatre)
3. #YouGotOlder (Cherry Lane Theatre)
3. #MobyDick (BAM)
#NYCTheatre
I am actually for Ishmael's weird tangents on whaling trivia because they break up some of the more brutal and intense sequences. #MobyDick
One of my thoughts reading #MobyDick and Heart of Darkness is that insistence these books are "symbolic" is just a way to deny the authors are discussing the real and horrible things they saw.
Chapter 82 of Moby Dick, "The Honor and Glory of Whaling" The preceding chapter was about the horrible and pointless murder of an old whale with only one fin.
Can a chapter heading be sarcastic? #MobyDick
Paws, haunches, and tail of a white French Bulldog lying on a red sofa and yellow blanket.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
After sitting a long time listening to the long stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage, as they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a schooner or brig, confined to the north of the...
#ClassicLiterature #Frenchie #FrenchBulldog #dog
A merch company I have often purchased from posted a fine art print described as “Moby Dick,” (hyphen ommitted) yet it is a depiction of a humpback whale rather than a sperm whale. Yes kids, this is what happens when you try to flex about classic lit w/o reading the book. #BookSky #smh #MobyDick
Hundreds of colorful glass marbles in a cardboard box.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavoured to prevail upon Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain. There he sat; and all he could do—for all my polite arts and blandishments—he would not move a peg, not say a single...
#ClassicLiterature #HermanMelville #photography
Me acabo de enterar gracias a un amigo que Moby (que se llama Richard Melville Hall) es tataratataranieto de Herman Melville y que se puso su nombre artístico por la novela "Moby Dick" de su tataratatarabuelo. 🤔 #Moby #HermanMelville #MobyDick
Pink flower petals on gray asphalt, overlaid with the shadow of a leafless tree.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
With a prodigious noise the door flew open, and the knob slamming against the wall, sent the plaster to the ceiling; and there, good heavens! there sat Queequeg, altogether cool and self-collected; right in the middle of the room;...
#spring #ClassicLiterature #flowers
While I love #MobyDick I read that first clause and finished the sentence in my head 'don't fear for me, fear for the storm.'
#StarshipIris @jesserbest.bsky.social
Drone Footage Reveals Sperm Whales Head-Butting — Echoing Tales That Inspired Moby Dick #Science #Biology #Zoology #SpermWhales #MarineBiology #MobyDick
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A red-pink rose bud in a garden.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force open the door.
"I won't allow it; I won't have my premises spoiled. Go for the locksmith, there's one about a mile from here. But avast!" putting her hand in her side-pocket, "here's...
#rose 🌱 #flower
#MobyDick
#HermanMelville
…half vertical, scimitar-shaped slats...three hundred on a side...from the upper part of the head...The edges...fringed with hairy fibres, through which the... Whale strains the water...in Queen Anne's time...ancient dames moved...in the jaws of the whale…
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
An older title but still attracting the occasional reader (I'm pleased to report). Moby Dick enthusiasts find it of interest. #Melville #mobydick #literature #typee
A child's doodle of a cartoon cat with its eyes bulging out with love.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet to one side of her nose, she ruminated for an instant; then exclaimed—"No! I haven't seen it since I put it there." Running to a little closet under the landing of the stairs, she glanced in...
#doodle #cat #love #ClassicLiterature
Humbled and thrilled beyond measure, @jdrg.bsky.social ❌⭕️ #texdaw #mobydick #texdawsmobydick #theriseoftheundead #gayauthor #menreading #readingissexy #readnaked #booksanddicks #manykindthanks
The face. The dick. #mobydick #texdawsmobydick #theriseoftheundead #menreading #readingissexy #readnaked #booksanddicks #gayauthor #coverdesigner Credit: Tex Daw
"If I had a nickel for everytime I think i did somethin stupid,
Then I'd have a shit ton of nickels,
And that shit is stupid." ~ Jakey, Moby Dick
#Jakey #mobydick #lyrics #stupid
