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Currently Reading: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
… immortality is but ubiquity in time…
February 3, 2026 at 1:15 AM
… immortality is but ubiquity in time…
... my soul is grooved to run ...
fuckin' Bars, Herman
fuckin' Bars, Herman
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
... my soul is grooved to run ...
fuckin' Bars, Herman
fuckin' Bars, Herman
I am madness maddened!
Pretty awesome from Ahab here.
(Or the greatest “what I should have said” reflection of all time?)
Pretty awesome from Ahab here.
(Or the greatest “what I should have said” reflection of all time?)
January 31, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I am madness maddened!
Pretty awesome from Ahab here.
(Or the greatest “what I should have said” reflection of all time?)
Pretty awesome from Ahab here.
(Or the greatest “what I should have said” reflection of all time?)
Biggest cathedral in Czech Republic! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vit...
St. Vitus Cathedral - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 31, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Biggest cathedral in Czech Republic! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vit...
Makes me think of Elvis. Ahab was all shook up (uh huh-huh)
January 31, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Makes me think of Elvis. Ahab was all shook up (uh huh-huh)
"It also led to Vitus being considered the patron saint of dancers and of entertainers in general. He is also said to protect against lightning strikes, animal attacks and oversleeping."
January 31, 2026 at 1:19 AM
"It also led to Vitus being considered the patron saint of dancers and of entertainers in general. He is also said to protect against lightning strikes, animal attacks and oversleeping."
From Wikipedia... In Germany, his feast was celebrated with dancing before his statue. This dancing became popular and the name "Saint Vitus Dance" was given to the neurological disorder Sydenham's chorea.
January 31, 2026 at 1:19 AM
From Wikipedia... In Germany, his feast was celebrated with dancing before his statue. This dancing became popular and the name "Saint Vitus Dance" was given to the neurological disorder Sydenham's chorea.
As Ahab first harangues the crew to go after Moby Dick, he takes a drink, saying:
Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer't not thou St Vitus' imp
Meaning he's frenzied and shaking. St Vitus, it seems, was born in 290 and died in 303. Unclear how he got associated with the shakes...
Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer't not thou St Vitus' imp
Meaning he's frenzied and shaking. St Vitus, it seems, was born in 290 and died in 303. Unclear how he got associated with the shakes...
January 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM
As Ahab first harangues the crew to go after Moby Dick, he takes a drink, saying:
Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer't not thou St Vitus' imp
Meaning he's frenzied and shaking. St Vitus, it seems, was born in 290 and died in 303. Unclear how he got associated with the shakes...
Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer't not thou St Vitus' imp
Meaning he's frenzied and shaking. St Vitus, it seems, was born in 290 and died in 303. Unclear how he got associated with the shakes...
In which (call me) Ishmael complains he’s too distracted by deep thoughts to be very good at looking for whales.
Wonder what he’d think of doom scrolling?
Wonder what he’d think of doom scrolling?
January 26, 2026 at 10:09 PM
In which (call me) Ishmael complains he’s too distracted by deep thoughts to be very good at looking for whales.
Wonder what he’d think of doom scrolling?
Wonder what he’d think of doom scrolling?
In case you ever wondered where crow’s nest came from. Love all the details. So much more than a spot on top of a pole…
January 26, 2026 at 7:06 PM
In case you ever wondered where crow’s nest came from. Love all the details. So much more than a spot on top of a pole…
What's going on is that classifying animals was this huge hard problem. The solution -- indeed the revolution -- has already been written and will be published in 8 years. I wonder if Darwin read Moby Dick. I wonder what he'd have thought of it.
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
What's going on is that classifying animals was this huge hard problem. The solution -- indeed the revolution -- has already been written and will be published in 8 years. I wonder if Darwin read Moby Dick. I wonder what he'd have thought of it.
Also, (call me) Ishmael is convinced a whale is a fish. He knows about lungs and blow holes and all the variety of whale and porpoise and how much oil you can get and the quality of that oil. He tries, but at the end of the day, it's just his opinion, dude.
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Also, (call me) Ishmael is convinced a whale is a fish. He knows about lungs and blow holes and all the variety of whale and porpoise and how much oil you can get and the quality of that oil. He tries, but at the end of the day, it's just his opinion, dude.
… for we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included …
January 13, 2026 at 5:28 AM
… for we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included …
“moot point” being used to mean “open topic for discussion”. Wonder how it came to mean the opposite…
January 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
“moot point” being used to mean “open topic for discussion”. Wonder how it came to mean the opposite…
Took a minute to meet Ahab… his leg is ivory! Was always wood in my head.
January 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Took a minute to meet Ahab… his leg is ivory! Was always wood in my head.
Here, “native American” means white dude born in America.
January 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Here, “native American” means white dude born in America.
I'm just 150 pages in. Laugh out loud funny at times and the build-up and launching of the ship was a thrill!
January 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I'm just 150 pages in. Laugh out loud funny at times and the build-up and launching of the ship was a thrill!
Melville throwing down in defense of whaling and creating the great whaling book the straw man says doesn’t exist
January 9, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Melville throwing down in defense of whaling and creating the great whaling book the straw man says doesn’t exist
Also, let's bring back palavering. (It means talking too much without saying anything.)
January 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Also, let's bring back palavering. (It means talking too much without saying anything.)
…plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.
(Such a thrilling section as the ship gets ready to sail! Nice work Mr Melville.)
(Such a thrilling section as the ship gets ready to sail! Nice work Mr Melville.)
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 PM
…plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.
(Such a thrilling section as the ship gets ready to sail! Nice work Mr Melville.)
(Such a thrilling section as the ship gets ready to sail! Nice work Mr Melville.)
(call me) Ishmael is just happy to have a place in the world for a while. Makes me think of the welfare state. He seems so at peace with the great owners getting all the money. So glad people raised the bar over the coming decades.
January 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
(call me) Ishmael is just happy to have a place in the world for a while. Makes me think of the welfare state. He seems so at peace with the great owners getting all the money. So glad people raised the bar over the coming decades.
… am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me…
January 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
… am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me…
Nothing wrong with this tbh. Actually good to know folks have always been bumpin' and grindin'. It's fun!
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Nothing wrong with this tbh. Actually good to know folks have always been bumpin' and grindin'. It's fun!
Queequeg and (call me) Ishmael sleeping cozily with each other and nothing sexual about it. It's just nice. Different times. Fewer beds and so on. Norms flow through the world like a spring through sand.
January 7, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Queequeg and (call me) Ishmael sleeping cozily with each other and nothing sexual about it. It's just nice. Different times. Fewer beds and so on. Norms flow through the world like a spring through sand.