Climb aboard! The ship sails January 8th!
Chapters 23 - 27: Last Sentences
Chapter 23. Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of the ocean-perishing - straight up, leaps thy apotheosis! Chapter 24. And, as for me, if by any possibility, there by any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death , my executors, or more properly, my creditors, find any precious MSS in my desk, then here I prespectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. Chapter 25. Think of that, ye loyal Britons! We whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! Chapter 26. Thy selected champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, oh God! Chapter 27. On the grim Pequod’s...
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ReplyDeleteWe have only a few suggested guidelines: 1. Have fun! 2. Everyone’s thoughts, questions, comments, suggestions, are considered equally sacred. Contention, alternative views, various interpretations, great. (And of course mostly just positive collaborative inquiry as to what things might mean). But always with respect. 3. We are reading a book, and will be discussing our various interpretations of it. That doesn’t mean our own voyage won’t go off a on tangent now and then, and valuable life experiences in relation to the text are very welcome.
So, we are at the loading dock, some of us know each other, some not at all. Some of us brought a fair amount of luggage, others a shirt and a pair of socks at best. And that, along with a general sort of longing for the expansive unknown (and beauty) is, we might suggest, what brought us here.
Onward!
Dave (Portland) & Kevin (Prague)
I'm hungry for chowder.
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