Chris Brettell’s Reviews > Moby-Dick or, The Whale > Status Update

My man is pleading for his life as a whalemen here. Can someone please just tell him he’s valid already 🥱

“If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever the become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due, for already she is on the threshold.”
🤐

“If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once savage harbours, let them fire salutes to the honour and glory of the whale-ship, which originally showed them the way, and first interpreted between them and the savages.”
Huh?

Not this man trying to compare sperm whale fishing and military duty to try to improve my opinion of the profession.

Aww, Ishmael and Queequeg’s relationship is getting cute. Ishmael is still a little 🤠 but we’re dealing with it…

“But, after some difficulty having opened his bag, he commenced fumbling in it 😌, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk 🤨, and a seal-skin wallet…. with the hair on 😧”

This guy describes himself as the poor sailor for 10 pages and then is classist against a darker-skinned harponeer who he is to share a bed with. But even the thought of sleeping under the same blanket next to what he imagines as untidy, cheap linen or wool clothing.