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Yeah but I wished he'd gotten on with it!

Split your lungs with blood and thunder When you see the white whale Break your backs and crack your oars men If you wish to prevail! This ivory leg is what propels me Harpoons thrust in the sky Aim directly for his crooked brow And look him straight in the eye! WHITE WHALE! HOLY GRAIL!

Moby (sure is a) Dick

I would have gone with "I can convince those dumbasses to paint this fence for me if I try."

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<laughs in Steinbeck>

Haha can relate to the american one, Hunting is tough business.

Russians are about tragedies. Enslaved by the tsars as serf’s Enslaved by the Bolsheviks as serf’s. Enslaved by the communists as serf’s. Enslaved by the oligarchs as serf’s And how they never complain on their knees about starving, freezing to death, or dying for their serf masters.

brazilian novel: I might be fooling myself, but I might've written a pointless chapter

What is it with people and whales? I knew one guy who picked a fight with a whale. He took a one-way trip to Davy Jones’ locker.

Survive on an island until you find religion and then you escape by stranding pirates.

Meanwhile the intention of the author was to wrap his barely disguised essay on whale biology in something one could perhaps consider "plot" and call it a novel...

Canadian novel: "to survive the storm"

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To be fair, that whale did take off your leg…

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It can be embarrassing to be an American. “Now”is a good example of that.

Whale novel: "DRAG HUMAN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA"

LOVE it. I never could read Moby Dick, I liked the whale too much and just wanted Ahab to feed the sea creatures. However, methinks thou hast missed the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. novels.

I believe "Moby Dick" was about more than that. A lot more.

You obviously know little to nothing about Russian novels.

Only if those Whales are really vampires...

Tilting is a jousting term so it makes sense in context…

The Marks & Spencer novels: not just any whale, the M&S whale

That's only if you categorize Ahab as the protagonist. If the narrator himself is the protagonist, it's more like: "I go to sea whenever I begin to have intrusive thoughts about jumping off a cliff. I really enjoy squeezing the lumps out of the spermaceti oil. It's a sensual experience."

The Best One!

But the subtext of the American novel is that he wants to fuck and marry the whale but, after repeated rejections, settles on killing it. Also, AHAB: All Highway Patrolman Are Bastards? Two skeets in one right here.

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Russian novel: "to become a great man (but dying in misery is also acceptable)"

Pretty sure the American novel is about getting rich LOL

So… killing. Of course it’s killing, Americans love killing.

That's not completely correct It doesn't have to be a whale, just a large fish with Ernest 😁

I always thought the whale was the protagonist and Captain Ahab was the antagonist. This makes the story more compelling.

The whale killed his family... and as an American. "It's an eye for an eye." Don't mess with us and we won't mess with you.

There's also the seals. Fuck the seals!

"To pet the rabbits" is also a pretty cool motivation

aka i'm not gay bro, i'm not, i'm not obsessed with dicks i'm not i'm not i'll kill it i will kill this thing inside of me that wants the D bro i'll KILL IT I WILL KILL IT I'M NOT GAY! BRO!!

Ain't read a lot of French lit, non?

You should perhaps read some British novels written since 1960..... :-)

To Kill A Moby Dick?

powerful leader, destroys everything pursuing a pointless battle - America

Are we talking Moby Dick or Elon Musk?

Whales, sure, but Queequeg/Ishmael is the greatest ship of all time

Made me have a much needed laugh

The great American novel: "to bring dinosaurs to live through advanced cloning techniques!" youtu.be/ik0BPKM9WQg?...

"Ok, not ALL whales! Just that one, pale, elusive MOTHERFUCKER! QUEEQUEG STOP GIGGLING!"

Moby Dick?

Italian novel: Complex political intrigue is easily solved with poison. Also, I'm sleeping with your wife and your priest

these are all the same goal

American movie: “to punch shit”

At least I know how to completely process a whale should I ever find myself in a whale rendering emegency.

...and then open a Starbucks. 🥁

FROM HELLS HEART I STAB AT THEE!

Call me Ishmael. Name’s Frank, but I like to be called Ishmael.

Ish is acceptable. Not fond of Ishy

I thought it was big boss

To be fair, that whale was a Dick

Kkkkkkkkkk coitada da baleia

Hahaha

Czech novel: not to turn into a whale, like a literal whale, and have your family spend their life savings on krill and then rejoice when you die.

I had to read that novel in uni, and I hated it SO much. I actually had to schedule myself to read 50 pages a day over break so I'd finish the whole thing.

Russian novel: to become a great man and drink himself to death.

the last one is just jules verne's "20000 underseas"

Laughs in Hollywood: Jaws

Yet he wrote quintessential American English novels. Literally the gold standard for American literature.

And in the Palestinian novel: "murder the Yahood. MURDER THEM ALL!"

Where the protag starts on the road to the pub

"Not to mention that said whale took my leg." "But you were trying to kill him." "I DON'T CARE. HE TOOK MY LEG. HE GONNA DIE."

This is what someone who never read a book before thinks is inside of books

Makes me think of this scene

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Pretty wild take to think Moby Dick is about hunting a whale. But I guess people enjoy basic surface reads.

Careful, the orcas can hear you!!

Dedicated to the mission, just needs a better mission. The French seem to be on the right track.

“I found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there rolling about in the liquid part. It was our business to squeeze these lumps back into fluid. A sweet and unctuous duty! No wonder that in old times sperm was such a favorite cosmetic.” etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/mo...

yes nothing at all about giant dicks...duh!

No, sometimes it’s right out in the open.

The rule is: if you make me snork laugh you get a follow.

Scottish novel: anything it takes to stick it to the English FREEEEEEEDOM!

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to know what we already know but don't know we know

Well, he didn't lose that leg on a moor...

And current global dystopian corporatists…to regress their age with blood infusions while destroying the climate to consolidate their wealth while hoping Mars is terraformed real soon

Pretty much sums it up.

This reminds me of the peak bad place discussion: Moby Dick: too much whale, not enough whale, just the right amount of whale. It was epic.

Leo Tolstoy had a bit of an incel mindset. send reply

.... and it must die by me flipping 15 cars on it! (Movie version)

Or ponder the significance of every bottle of whisky (and/or whiskey) you have ever run across for at least 40 pages. There will also be a cat, who, possibly, is mystical in some intangible way.

I read that as “To kill that fucking whale-man”

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And still no parade

The only suitable goal for a hoser! ;)

"We are gonna need a bigger boat."

Accurate. 😆

Yeah, that's called conquest

Irish novel: to kill the British

Italian novel : “to be a real boy” German novel: “literally a Bildungsroman “ Chinese novel: “something about a monkey traveling to the west to visit a red chamber. I don’t know cause of Western imperialism “

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To be fair, fuck that whale.

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