Why would someone write a book that is 30% fiction and 70% whale trivia?
Why would someone write a book that is 30% fiction and 70% whale trivia?
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Because Melville wrote it, so someone might want to copy him since he's well known.
The whale trivia hides the Maōri/black gaysex. Not very well admittedly. But most people don't realise Ishmael is black because they're too busy thinking about huge white whales.
Because he's a fucking genius, that's why.
he was gay
Because that’s what sells.
Lel what? He didn't earn a cent from this book in his lifetime
>inb4 he did earn a few cents
He did earn a few cents
he earned a few cents
Quick anons!
Name a metaphorical item dragged like a ball and chain through a narrative until it's obsurd, boring or loses narrative relevance
The One Ring?
Because magazines weren't a thing back then
because it highlights the obsession with Moby Dick and whales in general
he liked whales
It's like American Psycho when Bateman describes what brands people are wearing.
i thought the book was about guzzling semen
its actually about sailing seaman selling semen
It’s 70% poetic pontification on the nature of reality, this would be like whining that Hamlet spends most of his play monologuing about life and death
>duh who cares about Alexander returning to dust just move the plot along
It means you’re an autist, not the cool fascination kind, the inability to appreciate beauty kind
Because authors tend to do a fuckton of research on their topics and don’t want it to let to waste.