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Moby Dick PodChapter 97 - The Lamp"Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes."We sleep in the dark.
2025-11-0602 minMoby Dick PodChapter 95 - The Cassock"Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office."The clothes of the butcher of whale blubber. A clergyman of and by the sailors.
2025-10-2903 minMoby Dick PodChapter 94 - A Squeeze of the Hand"In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti."Squeezing sperm oil, detailing parts of the whale. Stop laughing you pervert.
2025-10-0708 minMoby Dick PodChapter 93 - The Castaway"He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."Pip falls overboard, is rescued, but sees god underwater, and goes mad.
2025-09-1010 minMoby Dick PodChapter 92 - Ambergris"I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor."Stop saying Whalers (and Whales) are smelly. Also, where do you think this stuff comes from? Someone has to dig it out of a dead whale carcass.
2025-09-0806 minMoby Dick PodChapter 91 - The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud"His boat's crew were all in high excitement, eagerly helping their chief, and looking as anxious as gold-hunters."They meet another ship, play a little trick on the other captain, and get some precious, precious ambergris.
2025-09-0715 minMoby Dick PodChapter 90 - Heads or Tails"But why should the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers!"In England, royalty would literally steal your whale after you did all the hard and life threatening work. The whale was brought on land and sailors would sit down with "rare tea with their wives, and good ale with their cronies", you know, as a reward, and some jerk would come and seize it.
2025-06-0406 minMoby Dick PodChapter 89 - Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish"What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?"Fisherman's rights to who killed what whale when. Gets a little colonizer at the end there.
2025-04-0309 minMoby Dick PodChapter 88 - Schools and Schoolmasters"As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love."Ishmael discuses the differences between the sexes of the whales.
2024-06-0307 minMoby Dick PodChapter 87 - The Grand Armada"Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us. We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up."The Pequod discovers a pod of whales in the pacific and go on a long hunt. Cows & calfs.
2023-08-2028 minMoby Dick PodChapter 86 - The Tail"Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will." We're talking about the tail of the whale.
2023-01-3011 minMoby Dick PodChapter 85 - The Fountain"And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor—as you will sometimes see it—glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts."Ishmael considers the spout of the whale and its larger meaning.
2022-12-0212 minMoby Dick PodChapter 84 - Pitchpoling"The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die."Description of another weapons used to kill whales.
2022-06-2105 minMoby Dick PodChapter 83 - Jonah Historically Regarded"Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right Whale is toothless."We're still talking about Jonah.
2022-04-2905 minMoby Dick PodChapter 82 - The Honor and Glory of Whaling"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."A literary comparison of whaling heroes and myths.
2022-04-2807 minMoby Dick PodChapter 81 - The Pequod Meets the Virgin"For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he 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 Pequod meets a German ship at the same time a whale is spotted. A hunts ensues and the whales is killed but is too heavy and sinks. The whale is old and an easy target. Cruelty is on display.
2022-03-1426 minMoby Dick PodChapter 80 - The Nut"I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul."Ishmael talks whale phrenology.
2022-03-0906 minMoby Dick PodChapter 79 - The Prairie"As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jolly-boat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled."We discuss the pseudo science of Physiognomist or Phrenologist, which Ishmael also calls pseudo science and says he doesn't quite understand but tries anyway.
2022-02-1006 minMoby Dick PodChapter 78 - Cistern and Buckets"...smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale."Tashtego has a terrible accident. Queequeg saves the day.
2022-01-3010 minMoby Dick PodChapter 77 - The Great Heidelburgh Tun"Attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and—in this particular instance—almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped."We're still talking about the guts of the whale.
2022-01-0404 minMoby Dick PodChapter 76 - The Battering-Ram"But clear Truth is a thing for salamander giants only to encounter; how small the chances for the provincials then?"Not gonna lie, I have no idea what this chapter was about.
2021-12-3005 minMoby Dick PodChapter 75 - The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View"I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death."We're still talking about Whale carcasses.
2021-12-2707 minMoby Dick PodChapter 74 - The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View"This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his jaw have relaxed."We examine the difference in whale's heads. Eyes & ears.
2021-12-1610 minMoby Dick PodChapter 73 - Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him"And so flinging off its drippings, that the drops fell like bits of broken glass on the water, while the whale beyond also rose to sight, and once more the boats were free to fly."Flask and Stubb kill and whale and gossip about Fedallah and how much they think he's the devil.
2021-12-1614 minMoby Dick PodChapter 72 - The Monkey Rope"That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad."Ishmael holds Queequeg vertically by a rope while he works on cutting up the whale and contemplates their connection. Some ginger tea gets brought out and tossed overboard.
2021-10-3010 minMoby Dick PodChapter 71 - The Jeroboam's Story"lo! a broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion, temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen."The Pequod encounters another ship, The Jeroboam, which has been taken over by a madman religious fanatic who believes himself to be the archangel Gabriel.
2021-08-3114 minMoby Dick PodChapter 70 - The Sphinx"That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world's foundations."The Whale is beheaded and Ahab asks the whale to speak. Which... the whale does not do.
2021-08-2706 minMoby Dick PodChapter 69 - The Funeral"Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a world."Thoughts on the death of a whale.
2021-08-1303 minMoby Dick PodChapter 68 - The Blanket"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own."Ishmael talks about the whale's skin and marvels at its extraordinary qualities.
2021-08-1108 minMoby Dick PodChapter 67 - Cutting In"The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods."The sailors cut the blubber off of the whale. A gruesome sight.
2021-08-0405 minMoby Dick PodChapter 66 - The Shark Massacre"These two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks*, by striking the keen steel deep into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part."The nearby sharks want a piece of that whale and the sailors must keep them away by stabbing into the water.
2021-08-0404 minMoby Dick PodChapter 65 - The Whale as a Dish"Who is not a cannibal?"Stubb eats whale. Which may or may not be civilized. And why do we eat the things we do? And who's to say?
2021-07-3006 minMoby Dick PodChapter 64 - Stubb's Supper"If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil."Stubb teases and torments the ship's cook, Fleece, about the proper way to cook a whale steak. Fleece gives a sermon to the sharks down below.
2021-07-2618 minMoby Dick PodChapter 63 - The Crotch"Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters."We learn about a tool used by whalemen.
2021-07-1903 minMoby Dick PodChapter 62 - The Dart"The vast majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the whale as the before described exhaustion of the harpooneer that has caused them."We learn of the fortitude and superhuman strength of the harpooner.
2021-07-1503 minMoby Dick PodChapter 61 - Stubb Kills a Whale"Whole Atlantics and Pacifics seemed passed as they shot on their way, till at length the whale somewhat slackened his flight."The title says it all.
2021-07-0612 min2021-06-1909 minMoby Dick PodChapter 60 - The Line"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life." Ishmael describes the horrors and subtleties of the whale-line.
2021-06-1809 minMoby Dick PodChapter 59 - Squid"Almost rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee, thou white ghost!"A squid is mistaken for Moby Dick.
2021-06-1806 minMoby Dick PodChapter 58 - Brit (feat. LaNora Hayden)"Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?"Ishmael pontificates on the cruel and unpredictable nature of land, life, and the sea.
2021-06-1707 minMoby Dick PodChapter 57 - Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in StarsThus at the North have I chased Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright points that first defined him to me.Ishmael talks about other images of whales.
2021-06-1606 minMoby Dick PodChapter 56 - Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling ScenesFrom the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies.Ishmael reviews different art and artists who have tried to capture whales in pictures.
2021-06-1408 minMoby Dick PodChapter 55 - Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales"Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan."Ishmael tells us how everyone does the Whale wrong.
2021-06-1111 minMoby Dick PodChapter 54 - The Town-Ho Story (As told at the Golden Inn)"The next instant the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch spouting blood like a whale."In which Herman Melville needs an editor. Haha. Just kidding. A story heard from a person, who then repeated the story in his sleep and Ishmael overhears it, in which, a mutiny occurs on another ship named The Town-Ho, and after that some people get killed by Moby Dick and basically the head mutineer, a BA guy from Buffalo, New York escapes to France. Also, it's told to a bunch of random guys...
2021-06-1145 minMoby Dick PodChapter 53 - The Gam"In the case of pirates, say, I should like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows."Ishmael tells us about the Gam, a tradition where sailors trade information and chit chat.
2021-06-0810 minMoby Dick PodChapter 52 - The Albatross"Ahoy there! This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific Ocean!"The Pequod passes another ship, The Albatross and they attempt to brief conversation but nature seems to have other plans.
2021-06-0805 minMoby Dick PodChapter 51 - The Spirit-Spout"Beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm."The crew all witness a whale spout and there's the feeling like nature is personifying and turning against the ship. Probably nothing to worry about.
2021-06-0409 minMoby Dick PodChapter 50 - Ahab's Boat and Crew; Fedallah"And all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end." Ishmael ponders Ahab's phantom crew of whale hunters.
2021-06-0406 minMoby Dick PodChapter 49 - The Hyena"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own."Ishmael rethinks his voyage on the Pequod and makes Queegqueg the inheritor of his possessions.
2021-06-0205 minMoby Dick PodChapter 48 - The First Lowering"Devils are good fellows enough."They hunt the a pod of whales in the middle of a squall, Ahab has a secret whale-boat crew unbeknownst to the rest of The Pequod until now.
2021-06-0224 minMoby Dick PodChapter 47 - The Mat Maker"There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!"The Pequod spots a whale.
2021-05-3106 minMoby Dick PodChapter 46 - Surmises"To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order."Ahab walks a fine line between dominion over the ship's crew and chaos.
2021-05-2707 minMoby Dick PodChapter 45 - The Affidavit"For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it."Ishmael reviews other times whales have attacked ships.
2021-05-2721 minMoby Dick PodChapter 44 - The Chart"And when, as was sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on fire."Ahab's got a chart of the seas and is also insane. And also has a...
2021-05-2713 minMoby Dick PodChapter 43 - Hark!"There is somebody down in the after-hold that has not yet been seen on deck"There's a mysterious noise.
2021-05-2502 minMoby Dick PodChapter 42 - The Whiteness of the Whale"What the White Whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid."Ishmael talks about all things white.
2021-05-2422 minMoby Dick PodChapter 41 - Moby Dick"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing."We learn of the sailor's lore surrounding Moby Dick and also of how Ahab came to lose his leg and his return to Nantucket.
2021-05-2223 minMoby Dick PodChapter 40 - Midnight, Forcastle"Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy"The crew starts dancing, drinking, getting horny, and starting a race war.
2021-05-2011 minMoby Dick PodChapter 39 - First Night Watch"Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!"Stubb's thoughts. A true Melville-needed-an-editor chapter.
2021-05-1802 minMoby Dick PodChapter 38 - Dusk"And with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences!"Starbuck deep in thought.
2021-05-1803 minMoby Dick PodChapter 37 - Sunset"I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass."Ahab's dark frame of mind.
2021-05-1404 minMoby Dick PodChapter 36 - The Quarter-Deck"Then tossing both arms, with measureless imprecations he shouted out: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the Norway maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."Ahab whips the crew into a frenzy.
2021-05-1317 minMoby Dick PodChapter 35 - The Mast-head"At last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it."Ishmael describes the sublime disassociation of being in the crow's nest.
2021-05-1215 minMoby Dick PodChapter 34 - The Cabin-Table"Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished."The crew eats and Ishmael observes how the old seafaring traditions and power structures play out over dinner.
2021-05-1113 minMoby Dick PodChapter 33 - Specksnyder"Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!"Ishmael talks about the harpooner and the dictator-like qualities of the captain of a whale ship.
2021-05-1006 minMoby Dick PodChapter 32 - Cetology (with a brief announcement from Josh)"For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included."Ishmael (or Melville) describes all the different types of whales. It's a real page turner.
2021-05-0734 minMoby Dick PodChapter 31 - Queen Mab"Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask?I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho'."Stubb recounts his dream to Flask, attempting to explain why it's cool to get kicked by someone.
2021-05-0605 minMoby Dick PodChapter 30 - The Pipe"How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized?"After discovering he no longer enjoys smoking, Ahab throws his pipe overboard.
2021-05-0502 minMoby Dick PodChapter 29 - Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb"A hot old man! I guess he's got what some folks ashore call a conscience."Ishmael witnesses an altercation between Captain Ahab and the second mate, Stubb.
2021-05-0407 minMoby Dick PodChapter 28 - Ahab (feat. Jess Maynard)"So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood."Ishmael lays eyes on Captain Ahab for the first time.
2021-04-2910 minMoby Dick PodChapter 27 - Knights and Squires"They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own. Yet now, federated along one keel, what a set these Isolatoes were!"Ishmael describes the other mates aboard the Pequod. Starbuck, Stubb, Flask, Tishtego, & Daggoo.
2021-04-2810 minMoby Dick PodChapter 26 - Knights and Squires"I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward."Ishmael describes Starbuck, 1st mate.
2021-04-2708 minMoby Dick PodChapter 25 - Postscript"We whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff!"Ishmael forgot to include this chapter in the last.
2021-04-2702 minMoby Dick PodChapter 24 - The Advocate"But this is not the half; look again."Ishmael extolls the virtues of the whaling profession, whalers, and the wonders of far off places.
2021-04-2611 minMoby Dick PodWeekend Wrap Up #1 (Chapters 1-23)On our first weekend wrap up, I'll be talking about our weird, sometimes relatable narrator Ishmael. What do we know about this guy? Who is he? Why is he?
2021-04-2508 minMoby Dick PodChapter 23 - The Lee Shore"Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs."Ishmael is the ship, the ship is Ishmael.
2021-04-2303 minMoby Dick PodChapter 22 - Merry Christmas"I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity." Peleg and Bildad wish the crew a farewell like worried parents. And we've finally set sail...!
2021-04-2310 minMoby Dick PodChapter 21 - Going Abroad"It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf."Ishmael and Queequeg are accosted by Elijah again and eventually go on board the Pequod. They sit on a man.
2021-04-2107 minMoby Dick PodChapter 20 - All Astir"If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea."Ishmael quantifies all the preparations for making The Pequod sea-worthy.
2021-04-2006 minMoby Dick PodChapter 19 - The Prophet"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning."Some old sailor on the street starts ranting about Ahab and gives Ishmael the heebie-jeebies.
2021-04-2007 minMoby Dick PodChapter 18 - His Mark"Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers—it takes the shark out of 'em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who ain't pretty sharkish."Ishmael and Queequeg go to The Pequod and Bildad and Peleg give Queequeg a hard time for not being Christian. Queequeg then demonstrates his badass-ery by throwing a harpoon and suddenly they don't give AF.
2021-04-1608 minMoby Dick PodChapter 17 - The Ramadan"Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling."Ishmael returns to the inn and freaks out because he's neurotic. After telling everyone in the inn that Queequeg has had a stroke, he breaks down the door and Queequeg is fine. He then gives Queequeg a freakin lecture about how religion is bad. In bed.
2021-04-1513 minMoby Dick PodChapter 16 - The Ship"Aye, I know that he was never very jolly; and I know that on the passage home, he was a little out of his mind for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in his bleeding stump that brought that about, as any one might see."Ishmael signs with a ship named The Pequod. He asks about the spooky captain.
2021-04-1433 minMoby Dick PodChapter 15 - Chowder"A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port; tombstones staring at me in the whalemen's chapel; and here a gallows!"This episode is about exactly what you think it's about.
2021-04-1307 minMoby Dick PodChapter 14 - Nantucket"For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires..."Ishmael talks about Nantucket.
2021-04-1205 minMoby Dick PodChapter 13 - Wheelbarrow"That common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records."Ishmael and Queequeg leave the Spouter Inn and exchange stories. They catch the a small boat to Nantucket and after a sailing mishap Queequeg saves a man's life. Like a boss.
2021-04-0910 minMoby Dick PodChapter 12 - Biographical"It is not down in any map; true places never are."Queequeg tells Ishmael how he came to be a whaler and both promise to stick together and get on the same ship together out of Nantucket.
2021-04-0906 minMoby Dick PodChapter 11 - Nightgown"Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal."Ishmael talks about being cozy. Queequeg begins to tell the history of his island.
2021-04-0704 minMoby Dick PodChapter 10 - A Bosom Friend"No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world."Ishmael and Queequeg beome besties.
2021-04-0609 minMoby Dick PodChapter 9 - The Sermon"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."Ishmael takes in Father Mapple's Sermon about Jonah, sin and salvation.
2021-04-0622 minMoby Dick PodChapter 8 - The Pulpit"Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom."Ishmael takes in the church and the minister there and cannot help but see how whaling is incorporated into every aspect of New Bedford life.
2021-04-0306 minMoby Dick PodChapter 7 - The Chapel"But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."Ishmael wanders into a chapel and sees the memorials of sailors long dead and gone. Thinking of the living and the dead, he falls into a melancholy and a happiness at his future on a whale boat.
2021-04-0206 minMoby Dick PodChapter 6 - The Street"Still New Bedford is a queer place."Ishmael tells of the strange people of New Bedford, a cross roads of the world. A rest stop of the high seas.
2021-03-3105 minMoby Dick PodIntroduction to Moby Dick PodWho am I? Who do I think I am? What's the big idea? I can explain.
2021-03-3100 minMoby Dick PodChapter 5 - Breakfast"A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing."Ishmael goes to breakfast and is fascinated by the sailors, oddly quiet. He's keeping a curious eye focused on Queegqueg.
2021-03-3004 minMoby Dick PodChapter 4 - The Couterpane"But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition state—neither caterpillar nor butterfly."Ishmael wakes up and tells of a strange dream. Queequeg gets dressed.
2021-03-3009 minMoby Dick PodChapter 3 - The Spouter Inn"When it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply." A very nervous Ishmael secures lodging but has to share a bed with a stranger. Chaos ensues.
2021-03-2532 minMoby Dick PodChapter 2 - The Carpet-Bag"My mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me."Ishmael arrives in New Bedford. It's late and cold. With little money he scours the dreary town for a place to stay for the night.
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My Favorite FriendshipUlysses S. Grant & Mark Twain (Guest Josh Nordmark)Mark Twain & Ulysses S. Grant formed a bond as America's favorite humorist helped its former President cement his legacy and take care of his family as they toured Europe together while working to publish Grant's autobiography before his death. Notes & Resources for the episode: Grant by Ron Chernow"The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant" - https://www.biography.com/news/mark-twain-ulysses-s-grant-friendshipMy Favorite Friendship is a #truefriendship podcast where hosts Brian Wohl and Marc Muszynski share real stories of the most famous friendships of all time.
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