quoting @egnlafleur.bsky.social, whose chat with us features in next week's episode: "Moby-Dick is a book about looking at burly guys"

🐳 EPISODE 9 🐳 We look at burly lads and talk about cannibals and Sally Rooney in the latest episode. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.

he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years’ voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time

Amazing stuff here about sperm whale births. Important lessons: - baby sperm whales are wriggly little guys with their flukes all bent up from being inside their mams - in the wild sperm whales are called stuff like Rounder and Allan and Fruit Salad www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Moby Dick was the Purple Haze of its time

They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

Sunday evening post.

Good clean fun except for the bit about god being chiefly known unto me by his rod

Moby-Dick, not Moby: Dick.

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We start a Moby-Dick podcast then this happens two months later.

feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan

CETACEAN NEEDED

MOBY DICK is about WHALES

We had some really cool feedback from people about our @thewhale1851.bsky.social episode on Ch 9: The Sermon, which explores the scriptural story of Jonah. It turns out this chapter means a lot to loads of people, as does Jonah - a book for prisoners, miners, exiles, people in the belly of the beast

the only thing you need to know about moby dick is that a whale is actually a great big fish

moby dick is woke???

instead of reading harry potter you should read Moby Dick or maybe Frankenstein. go read Hyperion. go read a warhammer 40k book about space marines. literally anything.

🐳 EPISODE 8 🐳 We owe everybody an apology. In this episode we mention Billy Mitchell from Eastenders being played by multiple actors when obviously we meant Ben Mitchell. We apologise. Thank you for staying with us in this difficult time. Listen now on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.

A stove book.

this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale’s jaw

A stove book.

Moby-Dick karass! The new Whale Pod episode is out, featuring a Melvillean digression about traditional Welsh poetry and a discussion of the famous CHOWDA chapter! Check it out here. 🐋https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social/post/3mhffgpsgac2v

The Welsh poetry piece was especially interesting! Every time I engage with Moby-Dick, I learn something new.

You can listen to this episode, which covers a lot of ground, for free on Patreon (or wherever you get your podcasts).

🐳 EPISODE 7 🐳 As you can see, our love for Ishmael really shines through in this clip. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

I am enjoying this podcast and look forward to their next series on Pierre of course (Pierre hive rise up)

CHOWDAAAAH CHOWDAAAAAAAAH

🐳 EPISODE 7 🐳 As you can see, our love for Ishmael really shines through in this clip. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

This one is out tomorrow. "Say it, Frenchy!"

The Whale Pod's job is, in a very real sense, to scoop out huge globular pieces of The Whale Book, of more or less the bigness of a human head

there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom

And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea... for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

Americans are frequently wrong about many things* but they are never wrong about how mental it is permissible to be about The Whale Book (very, very mental). If any of you people have a Melville-themed t-shirt, we want to see it: www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Sex, death and whaling (which is sex and death)

Annoyingly I can’t find the artist, but there is this: jesselatour.blogspot.com/p/moby-dick-...

Whale.

I’ve read a lot of books but never got round to Moby Dick for some reason - so I’m still really enjoying this podcast and the presenters’ increasingly whimsical meanderings (often only loosely related to the plot) as they work through a couple more chapters each week; and I do love a long sentence…

Yes, Shipmates - as in Nineveh, so here today.

I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife.

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Listening back to this as I edited was a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy it, too!

For those catching up, The Sermon is covered in episode 5 of The Whale Pod.

🐳 EPISODE 6 🐳 Over only 14 pages of Moby-Dick, this episode covers Karl Marx, Louis Theroux, performative reading, ritual and meaning, Peter the Great's Wikipedia page, Modernity, nicking fags and more. Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts. 🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

Working our way through Moby-Dick with this podcast. There are lots of biblical references. One day @pdkmitchell.bsky.social and I might take them seriously. Not today though.

This book is full of subtext.

I joke you not, I read a section of the sermon at my unitarian grandfather's funeral

Here at The Whale Pod we've been contemplating the meaning of the parable of Jonah, a man who was so anxious not to do his homework he got swallowed and then vomited up by a massive fish. There are loads of pictures of this, because it's completely mental