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Anyone here read all of Moby Dick? It starts out gay on the first page
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:28 AM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask and just keeps ramping it up from there, like a snowball effect. I couldn't get into it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304031) |
Date: October 9th, 2022 11:28 AM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304033) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:32 AM Author: charismatic hominid There’s also a memorable part of that first chapter where he talks about wagecucks being “cheerfully consigned to perdition” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304044) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:34 AM Author: fear-inspiring headpube To be fair,
"A few years ago, while browsing around the dockyards downtown, I had to take a trip..." |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:51 PM Author: Big mildly autistic heaven signed, a grateful whale-eater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305819) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 1:44 PM Author: Know-it-all New Version *methodically knocks ur hat off* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304544) |
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Date: October 10th, 2022 12:58 AM Author: dashing cyan locus Damn well written and still fresh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45307594) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:29 AM Author: Poppy Mediation Stage yeah, what's the problem? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304035) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:30 AM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask The extended passages about sharing a hotel bed with a stranger didn't seem to drive the plot. If I'm wrong please explain. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304040) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:33 AM Author: charismatic hominid There were no other rooms at that inn. It was the best that Ishmael could do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304046) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:38 AM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask "NO VACANCIES"
*beady eyes narrow* |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 2:57 PM Author: Heady whorehouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304861) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 6:09 PM Author: vivacious roommate nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305890) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:34 AM Author: Poppy Mediation Stage it's trying to tell you a story about brotherhood that you aren't interested in hearing. the autistic passages on whaling minutiae are the best ones (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304053) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:27 PM Author: Diverse opaque abode black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305688) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:35 AM Author: Heady whorehouse Queequeg isn’t a stranger, you nitwit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304059) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:36 AM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask Not after the first night from what I recall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304062) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:19 PM Author: Mahogany place of business (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304969) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 1:48 PM Author: Magical property idea he suggested It’s about brotherhood and agape love (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304552) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 4:46 PM Author: Poppy Mediation Stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305467) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:30 AM Author: charismatic hominid I read Moby Dick cover to cover the summer before 7th grade. I did it by forcing myself to read 20 pages a day every day until it was done. I read it by sheer brute force of will. I was 12. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304038) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 11:34 AM Author: Heady whorehouse I’m reading it again right now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304048) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 12:21 PM Author: laughsome flatulent address gaming laptop It's 180 as shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304224) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 2:27 PM Author: Cerebral ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304687) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 1:48 PM Author: Magical property idea he suggested It’s 190 and the finest American novel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304553) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:07 PM Author: very tactful potus pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305588) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 2:19 PM Author: charismatic hominid This passage always stuck with me too. This is how I approached going to law school and being a lawyer. I took it on with the visage of Capt Ahab: https://imgur.com/a/7c0t5Tk |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 2:27 PM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304689) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 2:25 PM Author: Titillating Bespoke Brunch I could never get through it until I got the Audible edition, which is great. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304680) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 2:56 PM Author: Heady whorehouse who narrates? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304860) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 2:58 PM Author: Titillating Bespoke Brunch Frank Muller. One of the best. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304873) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:10 PM Author: Heady whorehouse ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304931) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:00 PM Author: Poppy Mediation Stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305544) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:12 PM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask "The quick friendship and relationship of equality between the tattooed cannibal and the white sailor show Melville's basic theme of shipboard democracy as well as his fondness for Polynesians"
That's just not how I read it. |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:17 PM Author: Vibrant amethyst sandwich "Yeah, I can swab the poop deck," *beady eyes narrow* "but it'll cost ya extra." |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:19 PM Author: Mahogany place of business Starts with the title. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304968) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:21 PM Author: pale provocative international law enforcement agency i tried reading it in high school and it was completely boring and unreadable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304980) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:22 PM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask Yeah you got filtered out. Every straight American male for the last 100 years: they made us read Moby Dick in high school and I hated it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45304985) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:27 PM Author: charismatic hominid Moby Dick is not a high school curriculum book for most people. Maybe if you went to a really good private high school, but us public school mos had to seek it out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305017) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:30 PM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask Everyone who went to HS before the 90s seems to have been forced to read it. It's true, my generation was given different stuff to read that was more direct and to the point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305031) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:30 PM Author: pale provocative international law enforcement agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305033) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 3:55 PM Author: charismatic hominid I am a 40s mo so i went to HS in the 90s. I can’t imagine what it’s like for the boomers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305192) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 4:10 PM Author: Heady whorehouse I didn’t read it until I was 30
but it wasn’t as hard a read as some of the BS we had to read in HS… Tale of two cities give me a fucking break |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:25 PM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask Hell yeah, they tell you "it's about the French Revolution" to discourage you from digging any deeper into that subject. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305676) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 4:34 PM Author: infuriating stirring lay Uh, you think? In addition to the title, there's a whole chapter devoted to a whale's penis. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305401) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:02 PM Author: very tactful potus pit it's the best amercican novel of all time imo, definitely top 3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305557) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:09 PM Author: charismatic hominid I’d say it’s the best. What other American novels are even contenders? Huck Finn? Great Gatsby? Light in August? Moby Dick is the magnum opus of probably the greatest American writer to ever live. |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:26 PM Author: galvanic theatre pocket flask Mark Twain and Whitman are enough to introduce people to American literature IMO. Otherwise you can always find something better to read from England. I don't how why Salinger, Hemingway, etc are interesting to anyone and they certainly don't deserve their reputations. Melville looks 180 if you're already gay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305683) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:31 PM Author: very tactful potus pit i think its #1 but i could see farenhit 451, mice and men, to kill a mockginbird, catcher in rye, slaughtehouse 5, bunch of hemingway (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305704) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 7:24 PM Author: Know-it-all New Version (hs english teacher) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306196) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 7:29 PM Author: very tactful potus pit (Richard Wright) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306229) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:43 PM Author: Poppy Mediation Stage agreed, and yes those are the only other alternatives (with other faulkner if you prefer). lolita and pale fire are both great but i know they're not quintessentially american in the way the prompt is intending. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305775) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:51 PM Author: Magical property idea he suggested Light in August is not even close to Faulkner’s best work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305817) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:53 PM Author: Big mildly autistic heaven we can disagree re his best novel, but crazy to say LiA isn't even "close" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305823) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:59 PM Author: charismatic hominid Light in August is my favorite and spoke to me on many, many levels brother. I am joechristmas by the way. |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 7:19 PM Author: Titillating Bespoke Brunch I agree it's the best. It's the closest we have to something like Gargantua & Pantagruel or Don Quixote.
Contenders: Lolita Catch-22 A Confederacy of Dunces The Jacket / Call of the Wild More Than Human Huck Finn / Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket The Glass Key The Ax (Westlake) Wise Blood Mason-Dixon |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 7:22 PM Author: carnelian institution Infinite Jest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306189) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 7:27 PM Author: Titillating Bespoke Brunch nah
https://drjosephsuglia.com/2019/01/04/against-the-writings-of-david-foster-wallace-part-five-infinite-jest/ |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 8:25 PM Author: Big mildly autistic heaven high iq schizophrenia in action? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306495) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 8:27 PM Author: Titillating Bespoke Brunch More like rumination but yeah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306509) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 8:28 PM Author: Big mildly autistic heaven those tags are something else (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306525) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 8:29 PM Author: Titillating Bespoke Brunch It's called SEO, mom, and it's for my startup! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306531) |
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Date: October 10th, 2022 3:57 AM Author: Crystalline stage masturbator grapes of wrath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45307865) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:40 PM Author: white coiffed station no I think I have ADD and agreed, it was gay and got gayer like with every sentence. got bored as fuck in like the 2nd or 3rd paragraph and said fuck this shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305753) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 5:58 PM Author: impressive buff mad cow disease It’s a staggering work of genius and easily the best novel I’ve ever read or can imagine reading (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305843) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 8:18 PM Author: white coiffed station I presume this is sarcasm? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306404) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 6:02 PM Author: Balding bearded hall awful book, reading it front to back is a great exercise in self-punishment. Like tell me more about crafting harpoons bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305863) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 6:03 PM Author: Heady whorehouse (fag) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305873) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 6:10 PM Author: useless factory reset button mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305892) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 7:27 PM Author: Cerebral ticket booth 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306213) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 6:03 PM Author: Vibrant amethyst sandwich Had the same experience with the Picture of Dorian Gray. Made it through the first ten or fifteen pages but it just seemed like gay softcore erotica so I never read beyond that point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45305868) |
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Date: October 9th, 2022 7:11 PM Author: carnelian institution lol same (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45306133) |
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Date: October 10th, 2022 12:57 AM Author: Narrow-minded Godawful Church Building Ladyboy Call me, Ishmael (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#45307592) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 4:39 PM Author: ethereal \\(> ' v ' <)// tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208845&forum_id=2!#49433698) |