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Why are people out there complaining about the whaling industry info in Moby Dick like it's not the most rivetting shit in the book. In the latest chapter, Ishmael says, "yeah btw when we're in the whaling boats we lash multiple harpoons to the same line to get a more secure hold on the whale, unless it goes wrong like it usually does, then the loose harpoon is flung around hitting people. Sometimes there are like 8 or 10 of them all flying around hitting people. This kills people frequently, it's still industry standard, and it will be relevant to us later :)"

So I usually don’t like to think much about the character Eva much due to personal issues making me more squicked out by the conflation of “mother” and “lover” aspects that happens in those chapters of the book, but damn Book Demian is stronger than all of us. Because if I had been subtly pinning for my “close friend” since boarding school, and watched him struggle very transparently between idollic deification and scandalized horror towards me as I spent actual years of my life trying to gently guide this OCD-riddled rich church boy out of his shell and accept the dark and unpalatable aspects of himself, only for him to take all I taught him and go after my mother, you would see me on the news.