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Oh yeah. I can't remember enjoying another classic as much as I enjoyed this one. If I had to come up with one standout highlight, I’m not sure I could. I liked the story, the history, the language, the psychology, the character development, and I even liked the cetology. I liked the allegories and the allusions. And of course as you say, Poppin, I liked the forward-looking message of universal brotherhood. By the way, good tune choice. I'll kick in Spirit in the Sky, by Norman Greenbaum, being as religion is always nibbling around the edges of Moby,
https://youtu.be/W2msh0jut2Y?si=PgJGjxXhm-TYZmXT
Or maybe a farewell song since, you know, sailors have a habit of sailing away. So Long Marianne, by Leonard Cohen
https://youtu.be/3XzAjfwQtvM?si=878NWRIxTUwnu5bh
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A feast for the soul :) "insular city of the Manhattoes" tugged on my fancy. A yarn of a yearning for the sea of which I can not fathom brother Ishmael's depth, I being a seashore creature at best - my furthest voyage just to the other side of the Golden Gate and back... yet the sea beckons even I.
"By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air."
Verbose with all the colors of the rainbow. A grand tale, off to peruse the portents in Chapter the 2.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Enjoy the read, Tailor. Or in the words of HST — “Buy the ticket. Take the ride.” I hope you’ll let us know what you think about it along the way.
