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Moby-Dick

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A list of 170 words by yarb.

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  • ruzuzu *favorited*

    I was just thinking about the try-works yesterday.

    But where's the poor devil of a Sub-Sub? Dec 14, 2010

  • madmouth thank you! I promise I'll be very discriminating. Jun 13, 2009

  • yarb madmouth - I've added you as a contributor, so please contribute to your heart's content. And you can listen to this song while you do so. Jun 12, 2009

  • madmouth sorry to be swamping so (if you'd prefer an appendix list to M-D, just let me know), but I wondered whether you'd find knight-errantism suitable:

    Granting that the white whale fully incites the hearts of this savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food for their more common, daily appetites. (p. 177) Jun 10, 2009

  • yarb Ta. Jun 3, 2009

  • madmouth Peleg talking about the detrimental effects of piety on whaling:

    "...There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones."

    (ch. 18) Jun 3, 2009

  • yarb If you hit me with a cite, I'll add it. Jun 3, 2009

  • madmouth plaguy keeps popping up Jun 3, 2009

  • madmouth it does have its points (e.g. it sounds like a type of ham). May 9, 2009

  • yarb I preferred the idiosyncratic parmacetty, madmo. May 8, 2009

  • madmouth what about spermaceti? I learned it from MD May 8, 2009

  • reesetee Hurrah! Excellent work, yarb. :-) Jul 30, 2008

  • yarb Finito, Benito! A haphazard catch, of course - still richly deserving of a trawl by the good ship Chained Bear. Jul 30, 2008

  • reesetee *makes note to bump down The Confidence Man on reading list*

    C_b, I bet you'll love it when you do get to it. :-) Jul 25, 2008

  • chained_bear Yarb, I'm totally loving this list! Moby-Dick was on my list to read right after all those Aubrey-Maturin novels, but I didn't get to it. Thanks for doing all the work for me. :) Loving the comments too. Jul 25, 2008

  • yarb Thanks rt. I'm loving the book. Compared to Melville's The Confidence Man, the prose in Moby-Dick is minimalist. Jul 23, 2008

  • reesetee Great list idea, yarb! Jul 23, 2008