/lit/ - Literature

>implying America didn't produce one of the top 10 works of the Western canon less than 100 years after its inception

It was a metaphor for God...

Right...?

I mean...right?

obvious choice

there's bound to be a natasha who goes by "tash"

also george

Please tell me yaou aren't even trying

I don't care if OP only says one name, I'm sure I'll get some of you fuckers with this post:

Desmond
Tyler
William
Willard
Christopher
Robert
Charles
Lindsey
Brian
Ryan
Toshio
Sarah
Samantha
Felicity
Andre
Joshua
Steven
Stephanie

This also includes any variation on those names. Get this read, motherfuckers.

> my favorite fishy in the sea if I had to pick
> it would probably be a fishy like Moby Dick

Are you fucking kidding me?

More threads on lit are made concerning American authors than authors from any other country.

>>9185443
This is probably my second favourite

>I am Herman Melville,
>And this is Moby-Dick;
>You can call me Ishmael,
>This read will not be quick!
Fucking really, Melville?

Is it accurate to say that Ishmael becomes Ahab at the end of this?

He's endured far worse at the hands of Moby-Dick than Ahab, losing Queequeg and witnessing untold destruction and the loss of an entire ship's worth of crew. Both experiences result in obsession, but manifested in different ways, Ahab with an unquenchable lust for vengeance and Ishmael with a desire to catalogue and understand everything there is to know about the whale, hence his writing of the book and particularly the cetological chapters.

Compare the ending of the chapter "Of Whales in Paint etc." where Ishmael claims he'd hunt the constellation Cetus if he could, "to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond [his] mortal sight" to the passage where Ahab claims he'd "strike the sun if it insulted [him]". Both quotations demonstrate their respective characters' angst when confronted with their insignificance and lack of control over a cruel and uncaring natural world.

I finally finished this today and it's probably the best book I've ever read. What do you think of it?

>>8726778
I prefer this one.

>>8086230