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Chapter 26: Knights and Squires Starbuck , the first mate = Courageous, experienced, intuitive, wise. = Very brave if neede...

Last year I joined Brona in a Moby Dick readalong , in which I excitedly participated for several weeks, before deciding to sign...

Ch. 20: All Astir = Aunt Charity, Bildad's sister, is the very opposite of her beloved brother. She is the embodiment of pure Ch...

Ch. 12: Biographical How relatable is this passage about Queequeg's origin to our present world. Son of a High Priest on his nat...

A quick update on #MobyDickReadalong – my thoughts of ch. 8 to 11. I am now actually on ch. 15, but just don’t have enough time and ener...

I might not be posting regularly for #MobyDickReadalong, but I'll try to squeeze some chapters every now and then into my tight sche...

“Call me Ishmael” might be one of the most famous book openings in literary world, yet Ishmael himself turns out NOT to be the leading ch...

Do you sympathize with the characters? Which ones, and why? Actually I sympathize mostly with Captain Ahab. From Ishmael narratio...

What does Ahab want? What is standing in his way? And what strategy does he pursue in order to overcome this block? Ahab wants to...

Here again I’m working on the inquiries from The Well-Educated Mind. As part of this first level inquiry, I have posted six summaries of th...