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Old 01-26-2023, 05:38 AM   #41 (permalink)
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after watching this I feel like the best way I can say it is I don't doubt Moby Dick is a very poetic telling of catching a whale. Problem is I'm just not that invested in stories about catching whales. It's a bit long winded for that topic. I don't doubt it's good for whatever genre that is but I'm simply not the target audience.

Moby dick and great Gatsby are both books I was assigned in high school and opted to cliff note instead. They might very well be great books for all I know. They just didn't pass the ADHD smell test
Moby Dick is a refutation of transcendentalism. It's an argument that man is equal to nature and god, and it's heavy on the symbolism of the Abrahamic religions.

Here's a great three-part lecture on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQF9xii9cc&t=311s
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