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Thursday, 7 April 2016

"[H]e must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all"- The whale-killing scenes in Moby Dick

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When we finish chapter 81 "The Pequod Meets the Virgin" of Moby Dick , the Pequod has killed 3 whales. However, this chapter is di...
Monday, 4 April 2016

The sperm whale's deadly call

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Reading Moby Dick isn't enough. I have to know more about whales, especially sperm whales.  How do they function, having such small ey...
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Sunday, 3 April 2016

The whale's eyes, the structure of Moby Dick, the "boring" chapters

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Back to whales. Let's look at some photos of sperm whales: Before reading Moby Dick , whenever hearing the accusation that it...
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Friday, 1 April 2016

My 10 favourite East Asian films

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1/ Woman in the Dunes (1964) by Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan  2/ Ran (1985) by Akira Kurosawa, Japan  3/ Ringu (1998) by Hideo Nakata, Ja...
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Thursday, 31 March 2016

The whale's skin

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Being so ignorant, I have a hard time trying to write about Moby Dick . There are so many good essays, articles and blog posts out there, I ...
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Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Ishmael condemns me

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Look at this passage from chapter 65: "... It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen se...
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Sunday, 27 March 2016

Sea monsters

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Moby Dick , chapter 45:  "In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate of Constantinople, in the days when ...
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Moby Dick, chapter 54 "The Town-Ho's Story"

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On the surface, the Town-Ho story has little to do with the book. However, chapter 54 has several functions:  - Like the previous chapter ...
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Thursday, 24 March 2016

Moby Dick

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Note-taking again.  Ishmael sums up the meaning of Moby Dick to Ahab in this passage:  "All that most maddens and torments; all that...
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Envy

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"All the seven deadly sins are self-destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, avarice and s...