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[Anonymous No.20164392]

Whats your favourite chapter in Moby Dick?

[Anonymous No.20164400]

>>20164392
The last few, especially the one where ahab sees the dead musselman

[Anonymous No.20164434]

>>20164392
The encyclopedic ones. The fiction parts are crap and jump between shallow mysticism and weirdly homosexual imagery. The ending is just the epitome of disappointment. I was expecting so much more from this book.

[Anonymous No.20164446]

>>20164392
The Dubloon
Also the one where Stubb tricks the other boat into giving him their ambergris

[Anonymous No.20164455]

Haven't read it

[Anonymous No.20164462]

>there are people that insist queequeg and ishmael were merely friends

there isnt a harold bloom meme appropriate enough

[Anonymous No.20164520]

I’ve always liked the cook’s sermon to the sharks.
Also when they think they spotted a whale but it turns out to be a giant squid and they’re all creeped out about it

[Anonymous No.20164734]

>>20164392
96 ‘The Try-Works’

[Anonymous No.20164743]

>>20164392
Probably either The Whiteness of the Whale or Queequeg in his Coffin, my favourite moment/passage though is Pip's fall into the sea followed closely by the end of "Of Whales in Paint etc."
>>20164520
>I’ve always liked the cook’s sermon to the sharks.
this part is funny, stubb's complaining about dinner especially

[Anonymous No.20164749]

The chapter where Ahab starts reminiscing about his son and wife to Starbuck just before they spot Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.20164862]

>>20164392
Cetology

[Anonymous No.20164881]

>>20164392
#41 Moby Dick.
The imagery and prose used to describes Ahab's madness is great.

[Anonymous No.20165212]

>>20164392
The Quarter Deck, probably. Where Ahab lays out his somewhat platonic view of the world and what Moby-Dick is.
>Enter Ahab: Then all.
Love it.