I think you're onto something with the pipe ≈ humanity / perspective symbolism!

e.g. it seems telling that Melville chose to have a few chapters of conflict btw Ahab & Stubb as intro to these characters, right after emphasizing that Stubb is chill bc he maintains a rack of ready-loaded pipes. 🐳

Thank you, both from myself and my exam reading lists (which don't include Moby-Dick)!

You, person who follows this here account, are almost certainly not the person(s) who need to take this to heart.

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If you would get over yourself long enough to pay attention to the answers people have been providing since at least DuBois's _Black Reconstruction in America_ it becomes a lot easier to imagine answers to the first.

I was joking yesterday about adorning my email signature with a link to a Wayback Machine-hosted blog post of mine from 2014 that has many, many em-dashes… but I'm starting to wonder if that's not the worst of my many bad ideas.