It was the blueskybookclub choice for January #AMonthOfDick, which definitely helped me through the peaks and troughs. People still catching up, good luck! 🐋🐳
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It was the blueskybookclub choice for January #AMonthOfDick, which definitely helped me through the peaks and troughs. People still catching up, good luck! 🐋🐳
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Thanks Jacob, and all - wouldn't have made it through without you all, has been great fun 🐋
Recent Kindle searches for quotes from Moby Dick, I can't remember half of these: pip, 95, oceanica, jereboam, Bulkington, squeezing, Don Pedro, allegory...
Looks like my recent searches will be my #monthofdick tattoo 🐋
And when Bulkington came up earlier, you were all "yay Bulkington", so I was expecting some kind of exotic death, or a few more loving chapters from Ish, but.. 🐋
Ah, Ahab looking after Pip, how sweet, ah hang on "I do suck most wondrous philosophies from thee!" 🐋
Shipmates? We're all married now! It's been fantastic. 🐋
Beautiful and haunting 🐋
Well, ITV2 have just shown me an Aldi ad with a family swallowed by a whale, and I'm losing my grip on reality🐋 Top ad targetting youtu.be/5EKvVDMoX84?
Best to try out whale law in every possible application, it's probably just a question of confidence 🐳
Just tried out whale law in a family discussion on the Elgin Marbles. Regret to report it had limited success 🐋.
Thanks for posting all these. This was a good additional view of the boat and ropes🐋 bsky.app/profile/andy...
Fish with giant lower teeth is eating a man. Another naked man running away in some alarm. Woodcut from 1550
Monstrous whale (which looks like a fish) devouring humans, 1550 edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster 🐋
But at least invented Don Pedro may be pulling his leg "hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North.’🐋
Brilliant, bookmark this pic for later rope-related shenanigans
"For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man’s blood was spilled for it." ch45 🐋
"without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, [most landsmen] might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory." ch45 move on, definitely no hideous and intolerable allegory to see here 🐋
"one gallon of good oil" per porpoise 🐋 will maybe make me think a bit next time I put a few gallons (of diff oil) in the car. And maybe a place to note that sperm oil was still used in jet engines in the 70s open.substack.com/pub/edconway...
Are those steps too big? Of course not, just need "prodigious long upliftings of their legs". Growth mindset there. 🐋
Ch 40 felt pretty much like West Side Story
Serving plate featuring engraving of a sperm whale. Can only be foreshadowing.
We have had this serving plate for ages, but pulled it out today and realised... 🐋
"sea bishop" for gullible visitors, whitby museum
Sea bishop, what a phiz, whitby museum
Whaling and related material in the Whitby Museum, incl Scoresby records, replica crows nest, scrimshaw, collected stuff from the south seas whitbymuseum.org.uk/collection/m... 🐋
Hell yeah "special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts", he's not wrong 🐋.
And with InChI article featured on the cover, Happy New Year all
Been looking forward to this bit 🐋
First time MD reading, so appreciate the collective comments and support to get me through. Very entertaining so far, was expecting more like 90% sermon.🐋
I'm in, pls add me to the madness
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