Moby Dick Pod Josh Nordmark
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- Fiction
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Read by Josh NordmarkOne chapter once a day with wrap ups on the weekends.
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Chapter 87 - The Grand Armada
"Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us. We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up."
The Pequod discovers a pod of whales in the pacific and go on a long hunt. Cows & calfs. -
Chapter 86 - The Tail
"Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will."
We're talking about the tail of the whale. -
Chapter 85 - The Fountain
"And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor—as you will sometimes see it—glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts."
Ishmael considers the spout of the whale and its larger meaning. -
Chapter 84 - Pitchpoling
"The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die."
Description of another weapons used to kill whales. -
Chapter 83 - Jonah Historically Regarded
"Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right Whale is toothless."
We're still talking about Jonah. -
Chapter 82 - The Honor and Glory of Whaling
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."
A literary comparison of whaling heroes and myths.
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