#i guess. for the sake of the whale weekly girlies

[pasdetrois]

one of the many devastating components of moby dick's epilogue is its brevity. this tome of a novel that has discussed every fathomable aspect of the vessel and those it hunts, and it ends with a solitary paragraph in which ishmael quietly reveals his survival only after the drama is done. this seaborn(e), self named orphan (who asks us to call him such from the first line!), not yet able to weave the epitaphs that will cut the tapestry loose from the loom..

#I WANT TO TELL YOU THIS STORY WITHOUT HAVING TO BE IN IT #coughing up bloodf exploding in the kiln etc etc #don't even get me started on him being enshrined in queequeg's coffin.. #alsotop contender for most devastating final lines of a book as well. rachel searching for her children and only finding another orphan. go #moby dick #🍓.txt #moby dick spoilers #i guess. for the sake of the whale weekly girlies