GEM’s Reviews > Moby Dick > Status Update

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering lurks in all your horribles!”

“Yet there is hope. Time and tide flow wide.”

Ch 37 “Sunset”: Big anger.

Pp. 167-168 excerpt used in Metazoa

Stark tone shift in the book. Was previously very conversational and somewhat silly. Now that they’ve boarded the ship, there seems to be an interlude of thought with lofty and grandiose musings of democracy, what makes a man, etc. Wondering if this tone will be used to distinguish Melville’s voice from Ishmael’s? I miss Queequeg.

I’m having fun reading this book.

It is a good pun to ship Queequeg and Ishmael.