Calling all Dickheads!

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• ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dicks out for Mody!

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  • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    For a while my friends had a band called the tricky dicks.

    The logo was Nixon riding a white sperm whale.

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

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    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My baby gay ass reading this at 10: 🤔

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Legs out for Captain Ahab.

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• Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My favorite part of Moby Dick is the chapter titled The Prairie. In it,

  Melville basically attributes the size/wrinkles in a forehead to the wisdom/greatness of that being. He says goes on to list influential men with big, wrinkled foreheads (Shakespeare, as an example), compares the undulations in these wise men’s foreheads to the undulations of a prairie and their splendor, and then asks the reader to consider the gravitas of a Sperm Whale’s forehead.

  It’s literally the best fucking thing I’ve ever read and it’s crazy that nobody else lauds this passage as I do.

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• greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m about 200 pages in, it’s really good. But I wish there was a primer I could read about the themes, symbols, and historical context of the book. Just so I know what I’m looking out for. Searching for things on the Internet has gotten frustrating though. I did find the website that has notes about what all the words mean though.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Cheers dickhead, online resources are key when youre reading those old nautical tales!

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unironically a great novel. If you can understand Moby Dick, you can understand the first 200 years of American history.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had to quit at like 50 pages in man. It’s just a tough read, and I powered through war and peace.

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve had it on my reading list for over a decade… One day I’ll get to it.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      After 170 years? A story about the young working class seeking simple comforts through ruthless ecological exploitation? And for this humble crew to be swept up in a prideful crusade towards wealth and glory lead by a charismatic madman intent on killing God? And this crusade culminates in a calamity that destroys everything their exploitative labors sought to build?

      I can’t think of any modern parallels. But if one were to arise, I could see a certain sympathetic appeal.

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somewhere on a dark corner of the internet, someone is writing Moby Dick erotica right now.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    "Fuck me Ismael… " Etc etc

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Writing? Queequeg-Ishmael yaoi shows up on Google Images, this stuff is way outside just dark corners.

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    • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Well, I had to check. All I can say is good fucking lord man.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where 👀👀👀

    (Asking for a friend)

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    • jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would assume ao3, or failing that wattpad

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Has anyone here actually read the book?

  It’s not exactly a page-turner.

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  • Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is the book that completely changed the way I view literature. My favorite book of all time. It is beautiful, funny, bizarre, and tragic.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s one of the very small number of books to defeat me. The narrative part was okay but every other chapter was full of wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales and their lives and I just couldn’t take it.

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    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      wildly inaccurate “natural history”

      If you consider the fact it was written in 1850 it is surprisingly accurate, like it was talking about whales eating giant squids a century before the scientific community accepted that.

      Also the whale descriptions are the point, the book is about the enlightenment drive to understand and therefore master nature with Moby dick standing in as a refutation of that idea, being unconquerable no matter how much knowledge you have. Without the descriptions you could write off Ishmael and the crew as a bunch of idiots who just didn’t have the know how to take down Moby dick.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales

      ngl I think I might find that interesting…

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  • shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was all aboard the Moby Dick train when I tried reading it, and yeah hundreds of pages about whale phlegm really did take the piss out of my vinegar

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You need to get on board for what is, at its heart, a blog about being a whaler in the 19th century. The story isn’t gripping in the sense of a two minute movie trailer, but it does draw you in and lead you to care about a bunch of the crew as it drags on. It is the quintessential “slow burn” novel.

    But it isn’t even the worst on that front. Any Brian Sanderson novel is going to have a similar “omg, is this going anywhere? And why won’t they just kiss already? Damn, now I know entirely too much about an obscure magic system methodology of turning whale cum into lighter fluid” element.

    One book I could argue genuinely reads better on audiobook when you’re stuck in traffic for two hours a day.

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  • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is a page-turner; in fact it’s a banger. It’s an incredible book

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes. It’s probably my favourite book ever. No need for it to be a page-turner if each page is interesting by itself.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was written & read back in the days when people’s favorite pastime was literature. Ain’t nobody got time for that now.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shout out to the Librivox recording read by Stewart Wills, it is how I read the book and I recommend it.

  archive.org/details/moby_dick_librivox

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    aaaaah shiit I’m gonna be listening to this baby for MONTHS!

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m more a “crop your screenshots” dickhead.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    dickheads come in many shapes and forms

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• aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This dick is out. I like philip k dick

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Flow My Tears, the Dickman Said 😭

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• bigtuffal@dice.camp ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @Godric alt text
  "The Moby Dick Fandom is dying"
  moby dick pictured about to wreck a dinghy
  "reblog if youre still a true dickhead 🐳 "

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks, dickhead :)

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I will upvote this if anybody who is using a screen reader upvotes it.

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reporting for duty.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Welcome, dickhead!

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HMFL!

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hold my fucking lager?

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pfft.

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can call me a dick all you want, but as a dick I long to be wrapped up by something warm and velvety and beautiful and squeezed until I explode.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeap, this guy’s a dickhead.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure thing dickhead!

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• Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reblog?

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re still a true dickhead

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