>>25328188
Filtered by a filter feeder

>>25328196
Sperm whales are not filter feeders you amerimutt

>>25328188
Seminal novel but it's really not all that.
Ahab parodies are its most enduring influence in the public imagination.

>>25328199
My bad, they're sperm feeders like you

>>25328188
What precise moment filtered you?

>>25328225
He can't read above a fifth grade level

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>Seminal novel but it's really not all that.
Ahab parodies are its most enduring influence in the public imagination.

How does one get filtered by unadulterated beauty? Autism? Anime addiction?

>>25328188
How many "my attention span is too low to appreciate Moby Dick" posts do we need? Nobody cares. Go back to reading whatever slop you're used to.

>>25328244
I really gotta continue my second reading of this. I really can't think of a better book I've read.
I think I'd read it more often if it didn't make me fucking emotional every time I do.

I'm about 100 pages in. Its a cozy read so far. I feel kinda dumb waiting this long to read it.

>>25328302
Yeah I didn't read it until I was 32 and I felt like such a retard for waiting

>>25328306
I'm 31 and about to start it, I unironically didn't think it was a serious book because I only knew it from jokes about it in cartoons and shit. I was surprised to see it on the top of so many lit charts when I started using this board this year. IDK how I missed it.

>>25328316
I was really oppose to reading moby dick cause I kept seeing old mspaint meme for the longest time that for some reason always instill a sense of aversion to reading the book. Now I'm reading it and I'm like this is actually really good. Captcha can eat shit.

>>25328205
So what is your top 5 then.

>>25328316
Truth be told I think it's pretty common. I think it takes a certain level of maturity and experience to be able to wrap your head around/relate to that isn't generally accessible to your average 20-something. All the shit about work and dealing with people is just kind of lost on a 20 year old who doesn't have any real life experience under his belt. Also the depth of the characters and the motivations of Ahab make a lot more sense after you've met a few crazy fucks with similar grudges/obsessions.

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>>25328324
>top 5

>>25328336
KEK Moby Dick is the kind of book that you should read only while you're still young and think that "adventures" are something noble and that you won't get any deeper insights into the world and being unless you risk your neck in it.
>dude this ahab guy reminds me of the bitter divorced methanol addict at the local gas station melville had such a deep and penetrating insight into human nature
LMFAO

>>25328370
Sorry I didn't read it in my 20s anon, I was too busy having sex and "adventures."
Though I guess you might have a point that part of the book is Ishmael's learning not to get caught up in another madman's (Ahab's) dream.
I know you're just mad that you never got to do anything fun at all though.

>>25328370
this fag has never read moby dick and it shows

>>25328370
>how do you do fellow readers

>>25328370
>>25328410
Yeah, other than the obvious bait it's pretty obvious because a large swath of the narrative focuses on how your sense of meaning and its ultimately personal and subjective nature can be sensed only through personal experience, and that only by learning the hard way and through witnessing others grappling with the world can you understand that you have to come to grips with your own definitions and how slippery they ultimately still are. That is why there are the long ruminations on the different depictions of the whale in art in certain chapters, none fully grasping the actual meaning or feeling of encountering Moby Dick, from the most pedantically, dissecting and scientific to the mere stylized and poetic representations. Not to say anything about the entire chapter and the various meanings of "whiteness."
Think about even the part where Ishmael sees Queequeg using the wheelbarrow as a sort of backpack by placing the handles over his shoulders and how he ruminates on the multivarious ways that one thing can be another thing, and how this is a gigantic linguistic and semiotic metaphor in itself.

Moby Dick is partly why I'm convinced culture is in large part psyopped. No one truly genuinely enjoys whale facts. It's impossible. Thusly we can conclude a whole lot of pretending is going on

>>25328377
I read it as a teenager before I did all of those things.

>>25328434
Did it ever cross your mind that some people might read a book, understand a book and then disagree with the author's premise? No? Foolish anon, you still have a long way to go.

>>25328467
I just explained how even the book says you don't even have to agree with everything it says. It's just baked in to its premise that it doesn't know everything or claim to be the authority on everything.
Sure, keep projecting anon. I totally believe everything I read because your virginal ass wants to argue in bad faith.
It must hurt for you to be such a retarded, illiterate fucking faggot.

>>25328249
>How many "my attention span is too low to appreciate Moby Dick"
The chapters are like 2 pages long. I found it perfect for short attention span times.

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>>25328475
You sound mad bro.

>>25328488
Whatever you say anon, I'm not the only one in this thread who's pointed out how obvious it is that you haven't actually had sex.

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>>25328370
>pussy ass bitch afraid to take risks projecting all over the place about others stupidy and the book being a cautionary tale that helped him avoid making mistakes
>dude i then went and did all the shit i said i wouldn't do but that the book forewarned me against and ultimately implying that i backpeddaled and now am saying don't agree with what the book warned me about and all those lessons i learned because i was cornered and called out and now have to act like a vacillating vagina
retard

>>25328512
Whom are you quoting?

>>25328188
you're supposed to skip those encyclopedia chapters

>>25328515
>>25328370
>>25328467

>>25328370
Obvious bait

>>25328446
I'm a licensed skipper so I enjoyed the whaling parts. The only chapter that was a bit much was the rib cage measurement one.

>>25328498
Not an argument

>>25329010
My point exactly