@Indrid-Cold did you ever go to the malaap club on stokesCroft? Sadly long gone but i loved that place, you could have a meal, shoot some pool, watch a comedy show and rock out to a punk gig all in the same place on the same night. Took my first acid trip there when I was 16, that was interesting, I made friends with a giant black eagle haha, it was incredible how he fitted in the place with his 60 foot wingspan and even more incredible that he could telepathically communicate in English lol
I've never read Moby Dick. Is it any good?
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@Indrid-Cold never read it either, just always figured it must be boring as fuck, a book that long about trying to find a whale and then finding a whale. How much is there you can say about that? Reckon I'd lose interest and write my own novella, captain ahab and the whale just go toe to toe (flipper, whatever) like real men (whales)
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@Indrid-Cold I read the first chapter or two once. I'm somebody who doesn't like to leave things he starts unfinished, and I'm reasonably literate/classically read, but it didn't take me long before I seriously thought "fuck this". I found it really hard work, an inaccessible and archaic style of writing which made it difficult to process and interpret (although granted the brain fog from my illness was especially bad back then).
I'd like to give it another crack sometime, but there are other books higher up the list to do first.
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@Matt_Aranha Hmm. I think it might be the same for me. Although I do like convoluted ye olde language when you hear it in Westerns, etc...
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I do remember from the film there's a toe-to-flipper (pegleg-to-flipper) close-quarters section (although I'm not expecting The Matrix).
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@Indrid-Cold quality Indrid 😁😁
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I've read this book twice, and I love it. I agree that this book is not for everyone, but I think it's worth reading
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@Karen4 Duly noted, mate.
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I think that you can watch a film
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@Elvin12 Good point. If you watch a film, instead of reading a book, the whale is harmed less because he's less in yr imagination. :man_bowing_medium_skin_tone: :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone: