i wasnt joking about reading moby dick. ishmael seems like the most normal guy alive
ishmael: ehhhh i dunno about sleeping with some random guy in his bed
ishmael a chapter later: [two page description of how he was cuddling with queequeg when he woke up in the morning]
me:
me: okay dude
reading the part where ishmael goes to a sermon and the priest like. sings a hymn about whales. reads from the book of jonah. gives a sermon about jonah. herman melville knows writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

