Moby dick
Moby Dick is the story of one man’s descent into obsession. Captain Ahab vs Moby Dick, the White Whale. You’ve probably heard of it. I think it’s rather well known. Anyway, I had a great time with it.
The language is sufficiently complex and flowery that I can’t honestly claim to understand all of it, despite priding myself on being pretty good at this English thing. I enjoyed the challenge. On the other hand, the chapters are really short: they’re pleasantly bite-sized, 135 bites to be exact, so although the book is expansive and more than happy to be long-winded and comprehensive it is always also pleasingly quick to dip into.
Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. But if […] the tip of your nose or the crown of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
🔗 Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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