Damn. That whale body and then severed head floating away in

>>9284569
Ye

>>9284569
>that poetry of Ahab finally discovering the white whale in the "Chase" Chapters toward the end.

i cry every time at its beauty

Can some kind anon suggest any other book that comes close to this monomania?

Dude WTF!???!!

Fucking SPOILERS HELLO?

>>9285179
Its not the actual moby dick

>>9285169
The Holy Bible
There is no other book than the Holy Bible and Moby-Dick to display such powerful imagery with such beautiful prose
I loved the last three chapters the best as well

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>Then tossing both arms, with measureless imprecations he shouted out: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the norway maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out. What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave."
>"Aye, aye!" shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to the excited old man: "A sharp eye for the White Whale; a sharp lance for Moby Dick!"
>"God bless ye," he seemed to half sob and half shout. "God bless ye, men.
>That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my master, man, is even that fair play. Who's over me? Truth hath no confines.
>Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!"

>Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw’st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed— while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!
God fucking damnit, what a masterpiece, if there ever was one proof that God exists.

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The girlfriend and I finished it recently. It inspired me to read the Bible finally.

>>9288871
>It inspired me to read the Bible finally.
Might need to reread it, bud

>On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

>>9286739
Is this the best book ever lads? It's just so fucking dank, god DAM SON

>>9284681
first post best post

>>9291187

I am agreed. And it heartens me to know that many people on /lit/ feel the same way.

It has been over 150 years since The Whale was published... is it time for us to start the Church of the Dick?

>>9290334
evrtim

le fish with le horizontal tail

DUDE

>>9293607
WHALES

>>9287984
Love that part as well, it really struck hard when I read it about two years ago and it still resonance within to this day.

>>9293836
LMAO

>>9291924
Wot

>>9293921
there's something like that in the cetology chapter

>>9293879
No

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>when Dante kills Satan

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>when meursault is cleared of all charges

>It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude: on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow. Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.

>>9284569
I need to re-read this, the old English was a bit hard for a non-native sometimes. But goddamn if it isn't captivating.

I heard people talk about the whaling sections like boring filler, but IMO without them the might of the whales and the actual challenge it was to hunt then wouldn't come through nearly as well as in the original.

>from hells heart I stab at thee