With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented, I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented, I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to Queequeg it was quite a different object.
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs.
A word concerning an incident in the last chapter.
When we are seeking out unknown texts, we tend to look for those that have “earned” (a strange social sort of earning, but that is another post, isn’t it) the four and five star reviews. The one-star review books we tend to avoid.
So what about our well-loved texts and the people who encounter them, find them somewhat lacking, and award them … only a single (or partial) star?
Those poor, poor deluded Misunderstanders of What We Love.
But the reviews are intriguing. Thank you, Biblioklept, for collecting and sharing one-star reviews of our beloved Moby-Dick.
Stubb’s whale had been killed some distance from the ship.