July 05, 2019

12. Moby-Dick.

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59 minutes

But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the

great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the

top of the uncompleted tower. For small erections may be finished by their

first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to

posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a

draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh Time, Strength, Cash, and

Patience!

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a massive book.

It’s a story about obsession, an encyclopedia of whale facts, and an

unexpected love story. It’s also the source of the name of our podcast! Chris

and Suzanne could talk about Herman Melville’s magnum opus for hours (and

indeed, those who support the show on Patreon

will get to hear some parts of their discussion that didn’t make the final

edit).

Show Notes.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

[Gutenberg.

Bookshop.] An annotated

version.

Audiobooks of Moby-Dick: Librivox. The Anthony Heald reading. The, uh,

Burt Reynolds version.

The audiobook for The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Whale Whale Whale, a Moby-Dick podcast.

Moby-Dick Big Read.

Moby-Dick marathon reading.

Herman Melville Was Also a Failed Poet.

Paul Gilroy: Refusing race and salvaging the

human.

How Toni Morrison Hunts the White

Whale.

Next time: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

[Public domain in some countries, where the text and an

audiobook are available.]

Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and

hear bonus bits of this conversation that didn’t quite make the edit but which

we think are still neat.

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July 05, 2019

12. Moby-Dick.

Listen Later

59 minutes

But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the

great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the

top of the uncompleted tower. For small erections may be finished by their

first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to

posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a

draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh Time, Strength, Cash, and

Patience!

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a massive book.

It’s a story about obsession, an encyclopedia of whale facts, and an

unexpected love story. It’s also the source of the name of our podcast! Chris

and Suzanne could talk about Herman Melville’s magnum opus for hours (and

indeed, those who support the show on Patreon

will get to hear some parts of their discussion that didn’t make the final

edit).

Show Notes.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

[Gutenberg.

Bookshop.] An annotated

version.

Audiobooks of Moby-Dick: Librivox. The Anthony Heald reading. The, uh,

Burt Reynolds version.

The audiobook for The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Whale Whale Whale, a Moby-Dick podcast.

Moby-Dick Big Read.

Moby-Dick marathon reading.

Herman Melville Was Also a Failed Poet.

Paul Gilroy: Refusing race and salvaging the

human.

How Toni Morrison Hunts the White

Whale.

Next time: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

[Public domain in some countries, where the text and an

audiobook are available.]

Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and

hear bonus bits of this conversation that didn’t quite make the edit but which

we think are still neat.

...more