MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE

“It's their job. And so part of what makes Moby Dick funny in some ways is that there's a hatred for a specific animal.”

“In part, that's because by naming the whale Moby Dick, I mean, there's so many ways Melville's like a deeply queer writer. All of his texts have scenes of mutual masturbation or various other queer subtexts.”

“The challenge of reading Moby Dick is having a comfort in not knowing and being someone who can sit with dissatisfaction or sit with inconclusiveness...”

“Moby Dick is deeply weird and funny and what it especially does for me both the 17-year-old me and to the 18 or 20 yearear-olds to whom I teach it now...”

“Have you read Moby Dick? No. I'm not a reader.”

“How many times have you read Moby Dick? 50 is probably reasonable.”

“In 1851, he published a novel called The Whale, later retitled Moby Dick or The Whale.”

“And what was life like on board the Peekquad, the whaling ship in Moby Dick? After the break, we try to get a feel for that.”

“And how about the crew in Moby Dick, the book you love more than anything? Describe for me the diversity of the crew on the Peekquad.”

“As Melville writes in Moby Dick, 'It is not down in any map. True places never are.'”

“The Essex was the real life inspiration for Moby Dick by Herman Melville, the whale of all whaling books. Don't worry, we will hear much more about Moby Dick later in this series.”

“how many times have you read Moby Dick 50 is probably reasonable I'm 50 years old I Read Moby Dick for the first time at the age of 17.”

“in 1851 he published a novel called the whale later retitled Moby Dick or the whale”

“it depends on the industry and what was life like on board the pequod the whaling ship in Moby Dick after the break we tried to get a feel for that”

“and how about the crew in Moby Dick the book you love more than anything described for me the diversity of the crew on the pequod”

“so if you could go back to your 17 year old self and maybe when you first read it and fell in love with it”

“also why is it still a good idea to Read Moby Dick”

“college professors are assigning fewer books and more excerpts because their students have lower attention spans. Uh gosh. That makes me sad, you know. Um but that said, if I were in college and then I had to read Moby Dick by tomorrow, I'd be like, "Fuck, I got to read Moby Dick by tomorrow." You can skip the whaling”

“There's a audio book version of Moby Dick read by Burt Reynolds. Uh it seems like he was done he had to do it at gunpoint or something. Really? atrocious. It's I highly recommend go find it. He does a sailor's accent, but he can't maintain it.”

“And there was a I guess in Moby Dick, still haven't read it yet. Melville talks about how um the rope was coiled so precisely by like a professional rope layer.”

“I'm about to do that with Moby Dick I've never read it and my buddy our our friend Joey carara... just read it just trust me and read it and I was like all right I'll read it”

“so something like a moby dick or flaubert or war and peace”

“if i had to pick five novels everyone should read moby dick would be one of my five”

“If you're reader or if you listen to this and remember Moby Dick, they should go look at it again.”

“I read Moby Dick this year and it changed my life and I've read a bunch of sort of whaling related books... Just read Moby Dick people if you haven't.”

“So the book I would choose for this is Moby Dick, and it’s a very obvious cliché choice, but it’s a thing that kind of everybody from all ages if you’re an American, this is a book you just should know. I think Moby Dick is essentially American”

“I also have to put a word in for Moy dick which is not just a great adventure story but a weird encyclopedic just like cram it Allin novel that I love and and return to in Parts”

“speaking of great journeys um moby dick i think uh you could pick huck finn but moby dick is the same sort of thing”

“For a moment I thought about the Bible and I was like, that's too obvious. What's like what's like totally even more inappropriate? So, Moby Dick came to mind. it came to mind as like this this like impossible book”

“So, I I was like, okay, wow, that would be really interesting to do all of Moby Dick because it's also like really long. I mean, it's 10,000 sentences.”

“And so, I think the the the sentence that's kind of like on the cover of the book, if you go to the website, it's like The website being Emoji Dick. emojidick.com. Uh call me Ishmael is the first sentence of Moby Dick”

“for a moment I thought about the Bible and I was like that's too obvious what's like what's like totally even more inappropriate the movie dick games yeah they came to mind”

“so I was like okay wow that would be really interesting to do all Moby Dick because it's also like really long I mean it's 10,000 sentences and okay well if I don't want to do this man hire somebody to do this”

“we're gonna hire people to translate moby dick into emoji some portion of it and see if this works so I did the first chapter and the results came back and they were hilarious”

“And a whailing expedition like in Moby Dick, it's like literally a ship and a captain and a crew and they're going to like go out and they're going to try to like go get a whale and bring it back, right?”

“That term actually goes back to the whaling industry 400 years ago, where the financiers of whaling journeys — like literally out of Moby Dick, to go hunt a whale and bring its carcass back to land.”

“I had to assume that you were a fan of mville also of Conrad — um their influences are are quite clear here”

“listeners who have not read the book should know that unlike Moby Dick — which is as we know a long book with some shall we say slower passages”

“Why Why do your Why do the inmates in a maximum security prison want to go through this ordeal to learn Moby Dick and The Iliad and whatever else they study?”

“There are a very pointed moment in the film the College Behind Bars documentary we've been talking about where the class is is asked to memorize the opening paragraph of Moby Dick.”

“And the book was forgotten too in in Moby Dick almost. It's like that. I mean, Moby Dick had a longer obscurity”

“Herman Melville ended up working at the customs office after he wrote Moby-Dick. You know, like I can come up, I could give you 100 reasons why it's a bad career decision long-term.”

“What's your favorite novel? Moby Dick or Blee House if I had to say.”

“I'll tell you that my one of my most favorite fiction books of all times is of course Moby Dick by Melville”

“what was the book moby dick”

“even the film Orca you know which is sort of a ripoff of Jaws is very much about that of the idea of Moby Dick you know uh targeting and coming after Captain Ahab”

“Moby Dick I couldn't get through the [ __ ] thing cuz they kept breaking down wailing like I had nothing better to do”

“Um but I think I am in the midst of reading a great book right now, Moby Dick. You're reading Moby Dick for the first time? Yes. That's so exciting. It is exciting.”

“Moby Dick is a tragedy because Ahab will not give up on this [__] white Well that took his leg and if you read the book he just gets sucked in”

“He is a Moby Dick afficionado and collects copies and versions of that and he said that is the best book of all time. He said it's not my favorite book. He said, 'It's the best book.' You mean The Scarlet Letter, the one with the Great White Whale?”

“we met and we talked about like Herman Melville and Moby Dick for a really long time”

“herman melville right wrote the thing about the big fish wrote a book about a big fish moby dick remember him”

“Moby Dick barely sold in Herman Melville's Lifetime and only became this iconic work of literature over you know a century”

“what would it look like if artificial intelligence and they called their's baby B GPT was trained to learn language only by reading all of Jane Austin or all of Shakespeare or only the book Moby Dick as opposed to the entire internet”

“Whenever whenever you hit the whailing passages as a young reader, I said, 'Well, I I would be completely shipwrecked in that.' And now uh like recently, you know, like a few years ago, I finished it and the whailing passages became my favorite.”

“well we do have over here this this classic novel moby dick about the whaling industry there's a lot about ambergris in in moby dick”

“well um paves is huge you know he translated Moby Dick and um my we were in Sicily a couple of years ago and the um we were sailing around the aolian islands and we had this long conversation one day with our Skipper um about how according to him Pav's translation of M dick surpasses the work of and”

“and the sinking of this ship inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick”

“How so? about I don't know about influence because I'm not a novelist but I it's one of the books I Moby Dick.”

“I've always been fascinated by that story. Of course Melville makes a lot of it in hope in Moby Dick.”

“he sat me down in the front room and he started reciting Moby Dick the opening to Mobi dick was really striking”

“one of my failings in life one of many failings is i've never gotten through moby dick or or any of melville's works”

“among the the rarest book i have is i have a first edition copy of moby dick that is in incredibly good shape it's really really a rare copy of that book”

“and Melville would use for the climax of Moby Dick. That again is Nathaniel Filbrick. For my money, Moby Dick is America's Bible. It contained everything that makes us Americans.”

“You know, Moby Dick was a bomb. Was that true? Oh my God, it bombed. In the most vicious reviews. Wow. Melville died thinking his great work. Call me Ishmael.”

“you get that with Melville, too. you know, Moby Dick, like the language is so it hits this super saturation point”

“and I never read Moby Dick til I was 45”

“this is the story of a man obsessed with a whale”

“you got to go back to mobi dick where you got to go back to the frontier”

“and ahab wants to get him because because a number of years earlier he had an encounter with moby dick where moby dick bit off his leg and he survived”

“For instance, we were talking about this earlier, David, in Moby Dick, which has no female characters at all. The sea is the female. And if you think about the sea carrying the mystery, the sea is into the depths which Moby Dick dives.”

“so I'm an admirer of Moby Dick or the few recent authors that have a maximalist style”

“and I'm gonna go with Sun Also Rises and Moby Dick Heffron he did not write Moby Dick”

“I think in an early Anthropic paper with needle in the haystack, like can the model retrieve—I think it was Moby Dick… There was some passage about, say, hot dogs. A lot of hot dog talk in Moby Dick?”

“Or for instance in it doesn't always have to be a woman. In Moby Dick, the sea is the female. And the sea carries the mystery, right?”

“In 1851, he published a novel called The Whale, later retitled Moby Dick or The Whale. At some point, you may have read Moby Dick or pretended to.”

“the biggest book I could find was Herman Melville's Moby Dick I loved it”