This man THIS MAN WROTE THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN

>>9374554
>it's another moby dick thread

>>9374554
smd

>>9374561
>it's another virgin comment

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It had cooled and crystallized to such a degree, that when, with several others, I sat down before a large Constantine's bath of it, I found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there rolling about in the liquid part. It was our business to squeeze these lumps back into fluid. A sweet and unctuous duty! no wonder that in old times this sperm was such a favorite cosmetic. Such a clearer! such a sweetener! such a softener! such a delicious mollifier! After having my hands in it for only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to serpentine and spiralize.

As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma, - literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger: while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulence, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.

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.

Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

>>9374794
>it's another "babby keeps spamming his first Melville" thread

It's gotten rather trite, desu.

>>9374554
Shakespeare >>>> Melville

>>9375850
Shakespeare is just inane banalities gussied up to create an illusion of originality

>>9375826
The guy who made that faceapp thread is a legend.

Ot: I agree with you.

>>9375861
Melville was heavily influenced by Shakespeare psued

>>9374554
Please for the sake of Melville's soul stop making these threads. Moby-Dick is great but spamming threads is not. Keep it to a few and actually discuss the novel instead of these empty and dreadful circlejerks. Because it creates stupid morons like >>9375861

If I see you making another Moby-Dick thread without an actual subject to discuss... You'll see...

>>9375899
>>9375991
I never said Melville was good either, eunuchs

Moby Dick sucked

>>9376119
Suck my dick

What does one read after Moby Dick? Any other good Melville works?

>>9376130
Suck my Moby

>>9374554
> it's another joke about dick being in the title of Moby Dick

ebin may may my main man you should do stand up

>>9375826
bravo

>>9376170
His short stories, kid.

How does /lit/, which is redpilled, reconcile itself with the fact that Melville was the SJW equivalent of his time?

These books's, those that use biblical language due to bible being the most readily available book seem all the more grand for the fact that modern authors and readers are scarcely familiar with that sort of sentence weaving

Similar case would be Cormac McCarthy who juxtaposes crude rural types that suddenly start quoting grandiose verses.

Am I right

>>9376200
Could you expand?

>>9376170
I've only read Typee, but it was pretty good. Definitely worth picking up if you enjoyed Moby Dick. It's not philosophically inclined and the prose isn't *as* good, but Melville's voice is still there. I'd liken it to the first 100 or so pages of Moby Dick where Ishmael is just dicking around.

>>9376206
It's not as obvious in Moby Dick (though it is still present), but he basically white and Christian shames all throughout a lot of his novels. He was definitely a very liberal man given the time period.

>>9376223
what a confused mental midget you are.