I love the prologue that's just "every quote about whales Melville could find," and the little encomium to the Sub-Sub Librarian.
Now that I'm reading Moby-Dick for a second time, all the ponderous and trivial whale quotes bundled together at the beginning seems to work a little like the dumb-show they do before the play in Hamlet: a slightly more abstract capsule version of the book you're about to read.
How does everyone feel about Ishmael as a narrator at this point?
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Date: 2016-01-09 03:36 am (UTC)Now that I'm reading Moby-Dick for a second time, all the ponderous and trivial whale quotes bundled together at the beginning seems to work a little like the dumb-show they do before the play in Hamlet: a slightly more abstract capsule version of the book you're about to read.
How does everyone feel about Ishmael as a narrator at this point?