You only like Moby Dick because you have been conditioned to

What book is that?

>>9577933

It seems you bought a book written from the bottom to the top. This isn't how books in English are normally written, so you'll understand that I'm not going to want to read that.

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>>9577933
I have loved it for 25 years, since I read this at 10. When I was 18 I read the real version and I loved it then too. The finality of action is amazing, the Nantucket chapters are ripe with imagery and mounting suspense, and Ahab is an anti-hero extraordinaire.

i only like Moby Dick because i have been conditioned to

>>9577933
You're only saying that because you have been brainwashed.

i only like conditioning because i have been conditioned to

by a giant whale

the irony is off the charts

>>9577950
Translation Studies Reader

>>9577962
"In the US, he or she will tell you that Moby Dick is a great novel, one of the masterpieces of American literature. He will tell you so because he has been told so in school, because she has read comic strips and extracts in anthologies, and because captain Ahab will forever look like Gregory Peckas far as he or she is concerned."

>>9577950
Andre Lefevere - Mother Courage's Cucumbers: Text, System and Refraction in a Theory of Literature

All your desires and likes have been conditioned

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>>9577933
>trying to condition people into not liking Moby Dick anymore

The Sea-Wolf is better.

>>9577933
Same applies to videogames, the language (you) know, and most everything else. Funny how relatively few have been conditioned to like MD, however. That is, relatively speaking.

>>9577933
>he hasn't read Darden
alright

>>9577933
>psychological state is conditioned
say it aint so

>>9577933
Isn't society all about conditioning the blank slate into a certain ideal?

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>>9577933
>tradition
>bad