“Have ye seen the white whale?” It's a great question, but it's not the one we’ll be investigating in this week's episode. Instead, we’ll attempt to answer the question that has been plaguing literature lovers since the dawn of time — is Moby-Dick the best novel ever written or is it a 206,000-word abomination that would best serve as the anchor to a whaling ship?Well also explore other important questions such as: What are Moby-Dick’s best non-narrative chapters? What is skrimshandering? And whatever happened to good old-fashioned monologues? Resources:Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
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