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1. Sacred
2. Gay
3. True Christian, or a little "Jesus-y" to quote one of my students.

Moby-Dick – Melvilles grandioser Kampf zwischen Mensch und Mythos https://www.lesering.de/id/5181/moby-dick-herman-melville-rezension/ #Literaturgeschichte #Buchvorstellung #Abenteuerroman #HermanMelville #Buchrezension #Weltliteratur #Buchrezension #Freundschaft #Symbolismus #KapitänAhab #Naturgewalt #Bibelbezüge #Obsession #Literatur #Klassiker #Ökologie #Queequeg #MobyDick #Walfang #Tragik #Ismael

Kampf Mensch gegen Tier: „Moby Dick“ von Herman Melville https://www.lesering.de/id/5181/Kampf-der-Mensch-gegen-Tier--Moby-Dick/ #Literaturgeschichte #Buchvorstellung #Buchvorstellung #Abenteuerroman #HermanMelville #Weltliteratur #Freundschaft #Symbolismus #KapitänAhab #Naturgewalt #Bibelbezüge #Obsession #Literatur #Klassiker #Ökologie #Queequeg #MobyDick #Walfang #Tragik #Ismael

@TheConversationUS @histodons @blackmastodon

"#Whaling was also one of the few industries where #BlackAmericans, both free and formerly #enslaved, could make money and become wealthy. Individuals of all backgrounds could rise through the whaling industry ranks based on skill rather than birth."

I'm happy to give three cheers to #MobyDick's #Daggoo, #Tashtego and #Queequeg.

The three stars of the Pequod's crew, her harpooners.

Art: Anton Otto Fischer, 1931 edition of Melville's Moby Dick published by The John C. Winston Company.

RE: https://transfem.social/notes/a33rq7h1b0wb0052

Okay I finished #OliverTwist & I'm onto my next classic, #MobyDick

On chapter 11 and I'm on #AO3 for some #Queequeg #Ishmael slash bc they're cute af 😄

The first few fanfics in an AO3 search results page for "Ishmael/Queequeg" and sorted by kudos.

A friend just showed me #MobyDick chapter 10.

ToDo: continue this as a #gay #erotica between #Ishmael and #Queequeg. Forget the fucking whale, these two literally proclaim their #marriage and willingness to die for one another, kiss each other, then go to bed together.

"WI is currently considering a similar bill to W.VA's. ID has a bill on the table that would “prohibit certain materials from being promoted, given, or made available to a minor.” Which materials? [those with] “any act of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact w/a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, the breast.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-ian-black-west-virginia-republicans-want-to-throw-librarians-in-jail

#Queequeg and #Ishmael send their regards.

@yasha. #Moby-Dick. #Ishmael's voice -- its humor, beauty, capaciousness. #Ahab's rage. #Queequeg's coffin turned lifeboat. His love for Ishmael. And the #whale, regal, beautiful, and relentlessly victimized. Every time I reread it, I see and hear and experience something new.

🐳

#Moby-Dick was published today in 1851 in London by Richard Bentley. My life -- and many others who love literature, love #whales
love #Ishmael's voice, love #Queequeg's body & soul, even love, b/c so visceral, the representation of #Ahab's pain, & even love, perhaps most of all, the brilliant, funny, heartbreaking chapters about the whale's anatomy -- was transformed after reading it for the first time when I was 16. & transformed anew with every rereading. 🐳

#litstudies
#BookStadon

#Melville #mobydick (5)

But as for #Queequeg - why, Queequeg sat there among them — at the head of the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle. To be sure I cannot say much for his breeding. His greatest admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many
heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him.

#melville #mobydick (3)
#queequeg
Such a face! It was of a dark, purplish, yellow color, … stuck over with large blackish looking squares.
There was no hair on his head — none to speak of at least — nothing but a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead. His bald purplish head … like a mildewed skull.
… his chest and arms. … these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares … his legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark green frogs were running up the trunks of young palms.

Tattoos are my thing. Let's compare.

#FictionalCharactersDatingProfiles
#HashTagGames
#Queequeg

@Lazarou @cstross. Next up, #Ishmael and #Queequeg chapter(s) in #Moby-Dick.😠

#Closereading of the day: “I just want these away from our kids,” he said. “We’re trying to prevent students from being exposed to books that are absolutely raw pornography.” Exactly how is this person defining the difference between "pornography" and "absolutely raw pornography"? Is #Ishmael sleeping with #Queequeg pornography, but #Quentin's imaginings with #Caddy absolutely raw pornography? #Melville, #Faulkner, #litstudies https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/18/school-librarians-jailed-banned-books/

#Closereading of the day: “I just want these away from our kids,” he said. “We’re trying to prevent students from being exposed to books that are absolutely raw pornography.” Exactly how is this person defining the difference between "pornography" and "absolutely raw pornography"? Is #Ishmael sleeping with #Queequeg pornography, but #Quentin's imaginings with #Caddy absolutely raw pornography? #litstudies https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/18/school-librarians-jailed-banned-books/