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...
Lol, feeling same. When it became clear that we were going to have a chapter devoted to each decapitated whale head, I was like, okay, you are really testing me here, Melville.
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...
Lol, feeling same. When it became clear that we were going to have a chapter devoted to each decapitated whale head, I was like, okay, you are really testing me here, Melville.
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.