Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

Legs out for Captain Ahab.

For a while my friends had a band called the tricky dicks.

The logo was Nixon riding a white sperm whale.

Where 👀👀👀

(Asking for a friend)

Writing? Queequeg-Ishmael yaoi shows up on Google Images, this stuff is way beyond just dark corners.

"Fuck me Ismael... " Etc etc

aaaaah shiit I'm gonna be listening to this baby for MONTHS!

Well it beats being a Dickens fan/associate, or Dickensass as we call ourselves

Ah, the Dickhead split! We needn't be adversaries, we are all Dickheads at the end of the day!

There are also a few, more recent companion books that give a lot of historical context to both Melville and whaling, etc

Why Read Moby Dick? By Nathaniel Philbrick

Ahab's Rolling Sea, by Richard J King

This sort of advice would be more useful 200 pages ago... but anyway it's always good to search for an annotated edition. I read Norton critical edition,* it was really good, had diagrams showing what the different parts of the boat are called, a glossary, supplementary essays, and throughout the text all sorts of footnotes (some of them maybe too explicitly interpretative, but oh well). But I believe even the slightly more modest but still seriously prepared editions such as Oxford World Classics would do the job.

* a critical edition means the editors didn't just reproduce an existing text, but worked off the most "original" materials available, such as the first edition or the author's own manuscripts

Cheers dickhead, online resources are key when youre reading those old nautical tales!

Here's a History Channel special about the story that inspired Moby Dick. I've never read Moby Dick, but there were things discovered in a journal well after the book came out that are pretty wild.

That is indeed a screenshot of a post. Well done?

dickheads come in many shapes and forms

It’s one of the very small number of books to defeat me. The narrative part was okay but every other chapter was full of wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales and their lives and I just couldn’t take it.

It is the book that completely changed the way I view literature. My favorite book of all time. It is beautiful, funny, bizarre, and tragic.

I was all aboard the Moby Dick train when I tried reading it, and yeah hundreds of pages about whale phlegm really did take the piss out of my vinegar

It is a page-turner; in fact it's a banger. It's an incredible book

Yes. It's probably my favourite book ever. No need for it to be a page-turner if each page is interesting by itself.

It was written & read back in the days when people's favorite pastime was literature. Ain't nobody got time for that now.

Yeap, this guy's a dickhead.

Sure thing dickhead!

Hold my fucking lager?

Welcome, dickhead!

If you're still a true dickhead