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?

“Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!”

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.