The Whale Pod

Twentieth century theatre, "CARAMBA!", cholos, the curse of knowledge, the best curse from Romania, stowaways, flavours of autism, normies, how to find a specific whale in the ocean, and the internal torment to which we are beholden.

This episode is the discussion about chapters 43 and 44 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Hark!, and The Chart.

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Herman Melville at his most subtle, 'Spooge', the magnificence and terror of Whiteness, Treaty of Paris, the Iroquois Confederacy, the creation of Whiteness, racial superstructures, the albatross, Iron Maiden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lovecraft, albinism, annihilation, white light, semiotics, de Saussure, only geniuses take four years to do a three year course, men's mental health, The Confidence Man, Melville lives, dictators, industrialisation.

This episode is the discussion about chapter 42 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale.

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Dreaming of Dick, Garth Marenghi's 'Dickplace', "unbridled Melville going hogwild", whaling spirituality, the legend of Moby Dick, The Essex, Melville Marginalia, Thomas Beale, converging research, Mocha Dick, "Melville, or Ishmael, rather", bold assertations about how Melville wrote the book, the unconscious, Ahab's origin story, emo Melville's cry for help, penetration, Musée de Cluny, at the mercy of the subterranean forces of fate, Jules Verne, Hollow Earth, wishful thinking, The Thing, bilocation, Donald Rumsfeld, Japanese sex hotels.

NOTE: Some of Melville's collection is owned by Harvard, but Melville Marginalia is a project started at Boise State University - apologies for the confusion in this episode!

This episode is the discussion about chapter 41 and of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; which is named 'Moby Dick'.

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The fallout from Ahab's declaration that their whaling mission, stage directions, Hamlet, the Iron Crown of Lombardy facts, Napoleon, Sex Pistols, men's mental health, everything is trains, plundering interiors, railway history, Dickens, freedom, "both choo-choo and the rails", Starbuck's passivity, editors, Stubb's soliloquy (aka Live, Laugh, Stubb), Macbeth's Porter, Stubb's a cuck, poetic patheticness, Dad's Army, eight bells, melting pots, horny Mediterranean sailors, maritime capitalism, blacking up, racist caricatures, The Dark Knight Rises, Spanish vs Spaniard.

This episode is the discussion about chapters 37, 38, 39 and 41 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Sunset, Dusk, First Night-Watch and Midnight, Forecastle.

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"Art not game for Moby Dick?!"

One of the big Ahab chapters. The aul' fella fully exploding into the story.

Recording in a heatwave, Shakespeare, philosophy rears its ugly head, paranoia, prophecies of fascism, an ounce of gold, blasphemy, killing whales for money not blood, grog, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and more.

This episode is the discussion about chapter 36 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Quarter-Deck.

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Thirty-five chapters in, and we've seen no whales, but we're about to learn a lot about looking for whales. Also, the all-important question: plop or splat?

This episode is the discussion about chapter 35 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Mast-Head.

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Professional blunders, WhaleTok, the Dutch language is not real, discipline, Power, "who's the captain?", flattened hierarchies, the Titanic sinks, give us a break, becoming one with The Force, Manuel from Fawlty Towers, Shakespearean comedy, the sound of rain in the background, men's mental health, Charles Dickens was a racist.

This episode is the discussion about chapters 33 and 34 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Specksynder, and The Cabin-Table.

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One of the most maligned chapters of Moby-Dick is the litany of whales and Ishmael's taxonomy thereof. Is it that bad?

This episode is the discussion about chapter 32 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Cetology.

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Whale news, endorsing baleen whales, whale cocktails, David's crack, the Grand Tour, "...or Ishmael, rather...", finally clapping eyes on Ahab (who then does nothing), fighting the elements, modular man, warmer weather, Virgil's Georgics, Ahab speaks, Ahab threatens, Ahab hoys his pipe overboard, chewing your ear off with dream chat.

This episode is the discussion about chapters 28, 29, 30 and 31 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Ahab, Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb, The Pipe and Queen Mab.

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The litany of sailors, rationing danger, enraged and mighty men, Columbo, Dick Van Dyke, Mission: Impossible, whale-based erotica, Protestantism (again), John Bunyan, Don Quixote, Andrew Jackson pioneering ethnic cleansing, euphemism, Lyndon's Johnson, Norman Rockwell, prison, NPCs, don't worry worry, short man syndrome, fate, the racialised exotic, adventure literature, Ahasuerus and Morgan McSweeney, Anacharsis Cloots.

This episode is the discussion about chapters 26 and 27 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; both are called Knights and Squires.

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