This is the most perfect piece of literature to ever exist

This is the most perfect piece of literature to ever exist.

ok

>Not posting Arion Press edition
pleb

Never really thought of this before, but does MD follow the hero's journey?

No. Moby-Dick is a really odd sort of story. Besides, who would the hero be? Ahab? Ishmael? Starbuck?

You.

Elijah

Is that the best edition?

I feel like the beauty of it is that any of them can be seen as the hero, or their own heroes for their own stories, as well as Queeqeg, to add him.

>attempt to read this
>20 pages in, he's still talking about the sea
fuck off

Not OP, but yeah.

>picks up a book about a whale and the sea
>stops reading it because it is about a whale and the sea

I bet you read for plot, too.

no whale, only metaphors about the sea and water
gay af

pleb

you were never going to make it.

>it's another moby dick thread

>he still hasn't read it

>implying I havent read more of Melville than you

try me

>ishmael getting wifed By queeqeg
>secret dune coon harpooners
>literally lots fave book of choice

Fuckin lit gay af

favorite short story and why?

>inb4 bartlememe

ishmaelis is the meek inheriting the earth, the raving extremism of Ahab leads to madness and death; Ahabs obsession is the 'villain' of the novel

Is elijah some sort of prophet?

The only piece of American literature worth reading.

>literally named after the prophet in the book of Kings that fucked with Ahab, king of Israel

Gee, I don't know

this desu

Not him but I'm ten chapters into The Confidence Man for a class.

Holy fuck it's incredibly amusing, everyone's getting conned and swindled constantly, and it feels like I, the reader, am also getting conned and swindled. The book feels like a massive shell game, and I'm actually a little worried that I'll be a sucker once I get to the end.

hawthorne

Hawthorne, Thoreau and Faulkner are all great.