Moby-Dick: Chapters 27-35
"I kept but sorry guard"
Hello, readers!
This week gave us one of the most famous — and most often ridiculed — chapters in Moby-Dick. The first time I read “Cetology,” it honestly seemed kinda long and pointless. Reading it this time, I was more amused than anything, and thought Melville’s sorting by size contained some humorous gems. It was a reminder, along with the “Mast-Hea…
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