I won’t lie; I was not expecting the gay undertones in this. I’m early in the book though and I can only hope that these undertones will not continue.
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I wont lie; I was not expecting the gay undertones in this.
It's not gay until a woman has a role worth mentioning.
I wouldn‘t get your hopes up
Wait 'til you get to Billy Budd.
I'm maybe 10 or 15 pages in and not sure if I'll finish. The way he writes is just offputting.
>The way he writes is just offputting.
Put it down and come back to it in 10 years.
I've got the Dick coming in the mail, should I read Infinite Jest first so it doesn't seem like total shit after a real novel?
>book about chasing SPERM whales
>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.
>does not understand what true bromance is.
Stop looking at every interaction with your wiener and instead look at it with your heart homosexual.
It's exactly sublimated homosexual lust. Same story with all those manly movies that IQfy incels love
>He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me around the waist, and said that henceforth we were married
UwU
Someone has to polish the harpoon
They don't. Once the ship departs Queequeg and Ishmael's relationship is barely ever brought up again and Ishmael himself acts as mostly just a narrator. It's quite jarring actually, because you expect it to be a buddy adventure based on the initial ashore chapters.
>I can only hope that these undertones will not continue
They do not, although you will read about sailors swimming in gallons of semen
i'm about halfway through. the gay undertones cool down but I have a feeling they are gonna pick back up when the BWW starts pounding their poopdeck
Was it all as a joke? He doesnt look like a homosexual or have a homosexual name
>a book about seamen
what were you expecting
>Story about giant dick
>Surprised it is so gay
Come on anon.
for me it was the 15 straight pages of whale species classifications
that was great but i found comparing the heads of a sperm whale and a right whale overkill.
>go to IQfy
>it’s actually /homo/
what the frick was wrong with Melville?
Moby Dick:
>narrator gets interracial gay married before he even gets on the boat
Redburn:
>narrator falls in love with a British twink and takes him back to America
Billy Budd:
>handsome sailor gets antagonized by his gay superior officer because of mixed homosexual attraction and jealousy
why did he have to make everything so gay?
>Two males have a friendly good relationship
>HURR DURR THEY HAVETO BE GAY FRICKING EACHOTHER IN THE ASS
Honestly homosexuality being a mentall illness is starting to make more sense. Do you homosexuals not have any friends?
>INB4 B-BUT THE PAGAN Black person CALLED HIM HIS WIFE!
Consider suicide.
Moby dick and blood meridian both have very blatant gay undertones everywhere and you will see those books recommended here daily.
Moby dick is a very good novel though so just push through. Just scim read the blatant obvious paragraphs. That one pasted above is by far the most blatant one.
Derailing the thread. How much am I going to lose if I read it in italian translation? I could read the original, but I am a bit afraid that it could become a slog
It's honestly a little gay to me if you can't be a little gay with your bros. You homosexuals get so hung up on shit like this it's weird.
>OMG HE TOUCHED ANOTHER MAN AFFECTIONATIELY!!! UGH
Such an odd and truly sad modern phenomenon
Sometimes I fall platonically in love with other men. It's not sexual at all.
Wait until you find out why it's a sperm whale, lol
>book about sailing and sea-men
>not expecting gay shit
People were making fun of sailers and men out at sea since long before the jokes about the navy
*looks through thread*
maybe it's bout time I read this classic...
>I-I am scared of homosexuals they have cooties and might touch me and then what if I like it? that makes me a gay too goddammit.
My Dick arrived. Let's do it.
>He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world.
What did he mean by this?
Ishmael is hilarious.
>It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch. Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah? But "The Crossed Harpoons," and "The Sword-Fish?"—this, then, must needs be the sign of "The Trap". However, I picked myself up and hearing a loud voice within, pushed on and opened a second, interior door.
>It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit. It was a Black church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there. Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of "The Trap!"
I have to respect this unrepentant deluge of seatism and whaling references.