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Feb 23, 2015
Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)
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Plot? Who needs a plot in a novel the size of Moby Dick? Wouldn't anyone rather read many, many chapters about whale phrenology and fragmented streams of semi-random factoids, rumors and musings on whales, whalers and the 'noble' work of killing whales? There is a story embedded in this book, but it is as if Melville is doing everything he can to circumlocute around the story, only accidentally hinting at the action of the voyage to hunt Moby Dick, growing even more vague as Ahab finds the whale
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