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Alex Marden's avatar

Phew -- I'm still in it to win it, but this is getting more challenging to read! I was hoping Ishmael's philosophizing, finding parallels between whaling and the human condition, would continue throughout... but I feel like it's been sort of fading away ever since he had that near death experience in ch. 49. Like he lost himself in the squall...

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Jeremy Keim's avatar

Thanks for sending me down an internet rabbit hole about fields of vision that lasted as long as it took to get through Chapter 54, Ishmael.

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