Is 'Jonah Historically Regarded' the worst chapter

No it's Cetology.

The best chapter is A Squeeze of the Hand. :^)

>>9722368
If this isn't bait, I feel very sorry for you. Nobody deserves to be born retarded.

>>9722380
Not bait, I'm serious. I love the sermon in the beginning of the novel, but when it comes to the historical accuracy much late Sag-Harbor makes some fair points only to be dismissed with some terrible arguments by Ishmael.

>Maybe the whale was a boat or dead
>perhaps they went by the Cape of Good Hope (which is the longer route)

Dante, for example, makes a fair point in Paradiso about not being able to understand the divine in a rational manner as it is unfathomable to our muddled thinking. I'm not new to the idea, but Ishmael is using earthly arguments and not succeeding.

Not to mention the whole deal comes shortly after the 'we wuz whalemen and shit' chapter, which is equally obnoxious. Ishmael more than redeems himself later with 'The Tail' mind.

>>9722368
>>9722376
Fuck both of you

>>9722522
Chill dude, one of the chapters must be the worst, why do you object so strongly.

Bumpump

fuck you OP, there are no bad chapters

>third mate is a whale expert

Ok Melville, whatever you say.

>>9723666
>implying Cetology was a good chapter

>>9724342
>Believing this

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>>9722368
The final Melville redpill is acknowledging that he was a shite storyteller. I mean, nearly everything he ever wrote was taken in some degree from real life. The man was a prose engineer to the highest degree but he couldn't spin a yarn to save his life.

Probably the four chapters in a row about the whale's skeleton

>>9722469
>Dante, for example, makes a fair point in Paradiso about not being able to understand the divine in a rational manner as it is unfathomable to our muddled thinking. I'm not new to the idea, but Ishmael is using earthly arguments and not succeeding.
That was literally the point. Everybody on the ship had their own way of rationalizing Moby Dick and the chase. Read all of the mate's conversations and soliloquy's and you'll see it. Ishmael for his part was just arrogant and believed everything could be explained in "earthly" ways.