"After about 500 pages of Ishmael going off about whaling bullshit..." best summary of Moby Dick ever

@kirbyculp3449

10 ай бұрын

To be fair, he also discusses eating beans.

Captain Ahab is a perfect example of when keeping it real goes wrong.

@nervmeister

6 жыл бұрын

Oh god! Now I want - nay, I NEED to see Dave Chappelle play the unhinged and determined Captain Ahab.

@goldilox369

5 жыл бұрын

@@nervmeister much agreed! That would be fabulous!

@jamesharrison658

4 жыл бұрын

WUTANG!!

@thelonewanderingsolesurviv2963

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesharrison658 gimme some skin on the backhand side ahahhha

@dillonwalshpvd

2 жыл бұрын

Not wrong

I like how even an analysis as in-depth of this still has to admit that there's "about 500 pages of whaling bullshit" that he just sorta skips

@aguy7848

3 жыл бұрын

I listened to it as an audiobook once, it's extremely bloated with pointless stuff that just thickens the book and has very little to do with anything.

@RMATFL

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, I ain’t complaining. God knows if I got teleported back to the 18th century with no skill to earn a living, that book pretty much taught me the whole procedure to process whales on a ship!

@Rokaize

2 жыл бұрын

@@aguy7848 Nah, man. Dotted around through that 500 pages is a lot of character building especially in regards to Ahab. If you just skip the 500 pages of bloat, the true immensity of Ahab’s obsession isn’t going to be understood. The book takes great pains to pull you into the world of this whaling ship. If you see it as pointless that is fine, but it clearly isn’t the book for you then. I loved those details and it really helped me connect with the book.

@nassimamro485

2 жыл бұрын

lowkey disagree, much of those chapters subtly take on the overall themes of the novel. fate vs free will, divine meaning in all things vs arbitrary existence, the stuff that makes a man a man, the nature of the soul, faith vs disbelief, man trying to learn the unknowable fathoms of the universe/ocean, biblical references all over the place. even more than just the themes, those chapters have beautiful language and imagery that make them worth spending the time on. there’s also a lot of humor, character building (stubb is my favorite), and exploring the nature of humanity

@drterrynguyen4057

2 жыл бұрын

@@nassimamro485 most excellent!

"straight O.J. that bitch" I cried.

Am I the only one who loves the intro with the paper crumpling up? Like damn that is one satisfying animation.

@casedistorted

8 жыл бұрын

+TheFireDragon Igneel Yes but I really hate the sound effect that goes with it. It's not satisfying enough.

@Pooofcomify

7 жыл бұрын

Chris Anderson no way I thought I was the only one that thought those two thoughts

@Gadget-Walkmen

3 жыл бұрын

sounds nice

This comparison that white equals the combination of all colors AND the negation of all colors killed me. Mind = blown

@WhiskeyRichard.

10 жыл бұрын

Technically black is the absence of all color (light). Speaking from an optics perspective, white is the ensemble average of the mixture of all colors of light, i..e, no one color is dominant. White being an absence of color is more a concept of modern society, exactly why I'll leave for debate of someone more learned on the subject. For instance, it could be because of the prevalence of white paper, thus indicating blankness, or perhaps something to do with a slightly more racial tone ("white" vs "colored" people as it were). I don't know enough to comment.

@michaelcerda5514

10 жыл бұрын

Whiskey Richard isn't black a shade, not a color

@WhiskeyRichard.

10 жыл бұрын

That's artistically. Black is the absence of all light, "scientifically."

@DridgeDEU

10 жыл бұрын

Whiskey Richard Well, that depends on the color-system you are unsing ;) If you are speaking in terms of usual light (and also computer monitors etc, RGB) you are right, the more colors you punch togehter, the more white will the result become. But if you are using CMYK like in printing, exactly the opposite will happen: The more colors you print together, the darker and blacker it gets.

@WhiskeyRichard.

10 жыл бұрын

I don't think you understand. That's not scientific, again that's convention. In terms of physics, as I stated above, white light is the ensemble average of all wavelengths of light at equal parts. While we can only see and are really only concerned with visible light (~400-700nm), this also includes UV, IR, X-ray, etc. Black is the absence of the same. This is a fundamental definition, so there is no "other system."

You ask me, Ahab's the real monster. Moby's just been protecting himself since Day 1, and Ishmael only comes to this realization right before the Pequod is sunk.

@kirbyculp3449

10 ай бұрын

Indeed

"Bert and Ernie style" I laughed my head off!

@launabanauna8958

5 жыл бұрын

janeyrevanescence12 Me 2!

@JagerLange

5 жыл бұрын

Came down to the comments to state the same.

@gjford1951

4 жыл бұрын

Most people seem not to pay any attention to that relationship. They have an entire wedding ceremony.

@_sohamshelke

2 жыл бұрын

@@gjford1951 "it's not gay if you're at sea for a long time"

@contestofnerds

Жыл бұрын

​@@gjford1951 that is straight up not true

Dear Mr Thug Notes, I've finished the book after several days of exhausting reading of everything Ismael had to say about whales JUST to hear what you had to say about it in your analysis :)

@fauvecorrigan1233

8 жыл бұрын

he couldn't have said it if he didnt read the book =P

This book is just one giant poem. Lean back and enjoy the ride.

Would it surprise anyone if I mentioned this book was a complete flop when it was first written? Now it's considered one of the greatest novels ever written

@NodDisciple1

8 жыл бұрын

+James Michel So was most of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard's work. Point is, alot of authors are not recognized in their time.

@coolzb54

8 жыл бұрын

So was the Great Gatsby

@randyrandalman8234

8 жыл бұрын

+ZMB: Football Life At least Great Gatsby was short

@TheCNotes1

8 жыл бұрын

I would still argue that it's not a good book, since it has hundreds of pages of superfluous shit.

@MP420ful

6 жыл бұрын

Nope. Fucking hated this book. Everytime I try to read it again I can't get into it.

500 pages of Whaling Shit...yeah that's how I felt reading it. There was an entire chapter on rope...ROPE! What you do with the rope...how strong the rope is...how you should be careful around the rope...how to make the rope. The beginning was good...the end was good...but somehow, Wikipedia showed up in the middle of the damn novel and slowed everything WAAAAAY down.

@j-manmarkus7591

8 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Everyone and everything appeared in that novel...Even the town whore had her own chapter!!!

@bigdumbdumbfly

8 жыл бұрын

Yea but youve to find the prose and metaphors in those chapters! That chapter was the line and i specifically remember "all men are enveloped in whale lines and born with halters around their necks" its a metaphor that in any life we are subjected to our own lines like that of the whalemen. Plus with whaling being so small an industry he helped preserve and teach us alot about how it was. Moby Dick would be harder to make sense of if we didnt have all the background information he gave us. Even at that its still hard to make sense of the book.

@80909dave

7 жыл бұрын

Also it was not written as a novel but published in magazines like a monthly series, one chapter at a time. and they made more money by lengthening it, kind of like a TV series of its day.

@brandonbuchner1771

7 жыл бұрын

dave b while that may be true, Melville himself made precisely dick from sales.

@chriskelly7650

7 жыл бұрын

It can be a tough read but there a more than a few moments like the "The Castaway". Here are the last paragraphs:unbelievable. But we are all in the hands of the Gods; and Pip jumped again. It was under very similar circumstances to the first performance; but this time he did not breast out the line; and hence, when the whale started to run, Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried traveller's trunk. Alas! Stubb was but too true to his word. It was a beautiful, bounteous, blue day! the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater's skin hammered out to the extremest. Bobbing up and down in that sea, Pip's ebon head showed like a head of cloves. No boat-knife was lifted when he fell so rapidly astern. Stubb's inexorable back was turned upon him; and the whale was winged. In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb. Out from the centre of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest and the brightest.Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it? Mark, how when sailors in a dead calm bathe in the open sea- mark how closely they hug their ship and only coast along her sides.But had Stubb really abandoned the poor little negro to his fate? No; he did not mean to, at least. Because there were two boats in his wake, and he supposed, no doubt, that they would of course come up to Pip very quickly, and pick him up; though, indeed, such considerations towards oarsmen jeopardized through their own timidity, is not always manifested by the hunters in all similar instances; and such instances not unfrequently occur; almost invariably in the fishery, a coward, so called, is marked with the same ruthless detestation peculiar to military navies and armies.But it so happened, that those boats, without seeing Pip, suddenly spying whales close to them on one side, turned, and gave chase; and Stubb's boat was now so far away, and he and all his crew so intent upon his fish, that Pip's ringed horizon began to expand around him miserably. By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said he was. The sea had leeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

Note: Odd Numbered chapters can give you the story while the even numbered pages can give you info on whaling.

@williamjackson5598

4 жыл бұрын

powerist is this true

@chibi_undercover9663

4 жыл бұрын

William Jackson Nope

@scotttaylor5928

4 жыл бұрын

That’s literally not true lol

@andrewd2114

4 жыл бұрын

This is not true at all

@mrraytheteacher1123

4 жыл бұрын

If you like beef and you like seafood, than you'll love whale! :D It's available in Japan and isn't too expensive! Also, please check out and subscribe to my channel for educational videos! :D

" They start kickin it Bert and Ernie style" LOL Love it

Nobody: Ishmael: *BEFORE WE CONTINUE WITH THE AMAZING STORY OF HOW AHAB'S VENGEANCE BECAME HIS DOWNFALL, LET ME ENTICE YOU WITH AN ENLIGHTENING LECTURE ABOUT THE GLORIES OF THE INDUSTRY OF WHALING.*

@RhiDElton

Жыл бұрын

The "sperm" squishing chapter though....

@NorthWestern1919

Жыл бұрын

@@RhiDElton Yeah.

@alexscott1257

2 ай бұрын

@@RhiDElton I know right?!

It's surprising how entertaining these videos are. I've watched like 30 of them now, and I'm still surprised by how great they are every. Single. Time. When God was passin' out talent you got two servings, my man!

I never read Moby Dick but I LOVED every moment of this review. I learned a lot from the analysis and enjoyed the correlation between the white whale and the emptiness of the universe. Thank you soo much for doing these!

I wish I had a teacher like him when I was in school. I think I would actually have learned and remembered these stories. Keep up the good work.

"500 pages of whaling bulls*it!" Lol

What, no mention of the clam chowder recipe? I am disappoint. Kidding; great video.

These videos are making me enjoy my english degree again, thanks thug notes!

This is me, subscribing. You are too intelligent for KZread. Keep on braining.

You have so cleverly connected to a whole new audience with these videos. You've opened up thick, heavy classics to a new market segment in a well thought-out process which is both humorous and educating. Well done, Dr Sweets. You deserve all the recognition you can get from this series.

This channel is genius. Not only is it a fresh, entertaining, 'n' creative idea (yo !?) , but it's also valuable and to the point :)

Wow! That was so amazing. First off that summary and analysis was one of the best I’ve ever seen, second I could not stop laughing my ass off. “Kicking it Bert and Ernie style”

Loool! Moby Deezziie, I love the summary.. subscribed!

Thanks for the summary I enjoyed the video. I love how you use the actual passages from the book so the viewer can see that you actually know what you are talking about and have read the book ;)

Yo...I was pleasantly surprised how insightful this summary is. Damn! Good shit man!! 👌🏾✊🏾💯

THIS IS PEQUOD ARRIVING SHORTLY TO LZ!!!

@BigBoss-sm9xj

7 жыл бұрын

PrincessDoorKnobs " Be careful down there Boss"

@nervmeister

7 жыл бұрын

Very interesting parallel MGSV decided on. Ironically, wouldn't Skull Face be the "Capt. Ahab" of the story while Venom Snake is "Moby Dick"? I mean, Skull Face's gun is called a "Mare's Leg" which calls back to Capt. Ahab's artificial leg in the book. He also hates Venom aka. Big Boss for robbing him of any recognition for his contributions in much the same way Moby Dick robbed Ahab of his leg. Venom, late in the game, symbolically smears white ash all over his face, echoing the titular whale's pale complexion. And FINALLY, what Sparky says at 3:37 may the most telling in that it hints at the big twist of the story. If you played it through, you know which one........

@up_dog2127

6 жыл бұрын

quipper I feel like the motif applies to both Venom and Skull face. Many of the characters like Kaz are so worked up with revenge. The revenge is the poison in venom snake after all. Plus Venom also has an artificial limb. All of the characters obsessed with revenge also meat a grizzly end

@Gadget-Walkmen

5 жыл бұрын

love that. Great game.

Ok, here's one for you. How about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne? Can't wait to see what you'd do with that one!

I’ve got to be honest; this is probably the best and most succinct analysis I’ve ever come across about one of my favourite books.

@alexscott1257

2 ай бұрын

Isn't it just! It's framed as a joke and very funny it is! (I dare say that Melville himself would have approved being a man of humour like he was!) I actually think that the best tools for learning are the ones that make things fun and this sure makes it fun! He gets in some pretty deep points about the book and more than enough to get your thoughts flowing as you read! I can't help but hear Sparky's voice in my head in certain pages of Moby Dick now. Phrases like "Only Ahab sees that God doin' "em straight dirty!" When I'm reading some of Ahab's rants and reflections on the world!

This summary and analysis is just fantastic, it seems to get better every time I watch it. The only thing better is the book itself, just as relevant today as it was when it was written. Melville was a man who really understood life, the universe and everything.

Those 500 pages of whaling BS is why I have never finished this book.

@WhiskeyRichard.

10 жыл бұрын

So reading is what's getting in your way.

@babujai1

10 жыл бұрын

I tried to read that book 4 separate times and I can only get so far before I give up. The endless pages of whaling minutia killed me...

@WhiskeyRichard.

10 жыл бұрын

Sounds to me someone's just passing up a chance to learn a new skill.

@babujai1

10 жыл бұрын

New skill? Whaling?! LOL!

@syafiqjabar

10 жыл бұрын

Whiskey Richard This is more like someone played a prank on the publisher and inserted an entire whaling manual in between the pages of the novel. Maybe there's some thematic relevance regarding the whole whaling stuff being there, but Melville did not make it easy for people to analyze (let alone enjoy) the book.

So... In Cowboy Bebop, Jett Black is Ahab, and Spike is Ishmael...Nice!

@octoyang1991

8 жыл бұрын

+The AMV TOP 50 OMG, it all make sense now~!!! @.@

@kakashi76767

8 жыл бұрын

Francisco Florimon well, Jett did have a lover he could not bear to let go - watch episode 10 again. he let her go, but it hurt him like hell. jett's "white whale" was udi taxin, the guy who he thought took his arm. he wasnt obsessed with udi like ahab was with the whale, but when he got a chance to nab him he took it despite his disdain for the ISSP

@kakashi76767

8 жыл бұрын

Francisco Florimon hey you can believe whatever stupid shit you want

@Messmaster08

8 жыл бұрын

+The AMV TOP 50 All of the major characters have something haunting their past they refuse to let go of, which plays into the central theme of the story. Jet Black is haunted by his history in Law Enforcement and a past girlfriend, Faye is haunted by her amnesia and lack of identity, and Spike is haunted by his involvement with the crime syndicate. However, unlike Jet and Faye, Spike is the only character who is incapable of letting go of the past and he dies as a result. If anything, Spike is Ahab and Vicious is the White Whale. As Ahab's leg is taken by the whale, Vicious robbed Spike of Julia, and since then Spike's only purpose is to get revenge. Even after Julia dies, Spike still pursues Vicious because of how consumed he is by his past and the desire for vengeance.

@TheDrLeviathan

7 жыл бұрын

Messmaster08 the setting even reflects this, with modern looking cities juxtaposed with space flight and sci fi stuff.

Probably my favorite episode yet. Keep it up Dr. Sweets!

I love Thug Notes, his descriptions are quite accurate and highly entertaining.

This was astoundingly accurate

One day, Thug Notes must return!

Truly, epically, and brilliantly analyzed. Kudos!

this is actually really interesting. Good job Wisecrack!

Okay, this actually makes me want to read Moby Dick. All the chapters, all 135...chapters...(gulp)...with about 125 of them being about nothing... NO! I must do this! But the chapters...and my library only has a 2 week checkout period...Dear God...

I'm sad that BET doesn't give you the time slot (4 min?? I mean, 'Come On?!?) to do the full Thug Notes. It's so much richer and comprehensive. (Nice Job!) It is actually informative. Ahhh.. TV. Tirelessly stripping away any intellectual value of its content. **sigh** I find the omission (by everyone) of the whaling tasks, which take a major part of the story, surprising. It struck me as just as important, and relevant to Ahab's tale. It seemed to make an argument about the toil of man, it's bloody and cruel work, and the joy of exploitation. But rather than a condemnation of that state, it's a compassionate, albeit sad, understanding. His depiction of the crew as being at the mercy of the Captain, as well as the economy of the time - risking their very lives for a meager living and bathed in gore when successful - shows a measure of sympathy. Perhaps Melville is also depicting a parallel sympathy for the whales, embodied by Moby himself. Moby too is a slave to whaling but represents a violent rebellion against it. To be fair to Ahab, he also rebels against whaling, foregoing normal whale hunting at the risk of mutiny. He has chosen to live outside of its system to pursue a single maniacal obsession. He has literally been scarred by the violence of the career and has devolved into having the violence of whaling as his sole focus. The loss of his leg has been the biggest event in his life and since it was born from violence, he can only see violence as the retributive solution to his state of life. Except for Ishmael, whaling is the entirety of life for all the characters, all of whom are victims of its violence and exploitation. I might be reading into it a bit more than what is there, or am off in my interpretation, but the whaling does occupy a huge part of the book and seems to be an important component of Melville's message. I was quite surprised by it's voluminous inclusion actually, and pleasantly so. (For the record I'm a vegan, so no 'You're pro-whaling!?!' baiting. **grin**) To be fair to Thug Notes - you only have 4.5 minutes to cover a symbolically rich story, so some aspects (perhaps more nebulous in their interpretation) need to be omitted.

@NodDisciple1

8 жыл бұрын

+Terranscapes It is called idiot box for a reason. Part of me won't be really that sad if the net kills it really.

@albinpepe9057

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! Wonderful analysis.

Thank you again. I love your story telling, it brightens my week.

Thug notes is the best thing on you tube. Keep em coming.

Hahahaha, brilliant, sir, BRILLIANT!!! And now, I shall take another stab at reading "Moby Dick" again...

Wow, my name in my favorite book...

Thanks Sparky Sweets! This is a awesome video!

I swear this is one of the best channels on KZread, hands down.

Well done, Thug Notes! "500 pages of some whale shit -" not easy to distill this into under 5 min but ya did, and it was hilarious. Many thanks for the laughs and insights

"After 500 pages about Ishmael going off about whaling bullshit..." I hate this book for this exact reason. I didn't have to read this in school, I did it all on my own and I tell everyone that this book is best called,"Everything you wanted to know about whaling but afraid to ask: Madness Edition." Melville really wanted to show he knew his shit about whaling and it was completely unnecessary to the story.

@Kinkoyaburi

9 жыл бұрын

Haha, I kinda liked the book for the whaling bullshit. It was fascinating to me, although I dislike whalers and whale hunting.

@zakkdavis1704

9 жыл бұрын

Haha that phrase had me laughing

@Zellig

9 жыл бұрын

Kinkoyaburi And yet you have no problem with cows and pigs, who have the mental acuity of dogs and cats, being mass slaughtered, basically hooked up to the matrix for most of their life, and often beaten, abused, and tortured for your fast food your lazy ass eats because you won't bother to cook for yourself, get real.

@Zellig

9 жыл бұрын

And yet you have no problem with cows and pigs, who have the mental acuity of dogs and cats, being mass slaughtered, basically hooked up to the matrix for most of their life, and often beaten, abused, and tortured for your fast food your lazy ass eats because you won't bother to cook for yourself, get real.

@wynnefox

9 жыл бұрын

Wow, talking about turning it up to 11.

Brilliant, again. Thanks for these, they're great!!!

This has to be his most inspired analysis yet! Bravo. You, sir, are a boon to literature.

I learned more from this guy then I did from my teachers.

to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

this is the best one yet, my dude. i think i've been a subscriber since day 2, and they just keep getting better. how about Siddhartha. it's been a long time since i read that book.

This was one of the best so far. Thanks for the videos!

0:30 KICKIN IT BERT AND ERNIE STYLE O M F G I'M DYINGGGG

Some days I'm Ishmael and some days I'm Ahab

Holy shit that was the best video on KZread.... so informative, yet so entertainingly gangsta. Instant subscriber

Brilliant as always!! Keep up the good work!!

Bert and Ernie style! xD Watership Down, Dawg?

K, so he says that Ishmael sees the world in a fatalistic way? Is Stubb the same? He laughs at everyone and everything and takes what he can. He's quite the rascal. Probably my favourite character cos there's no bullshit with him

@everynamewastaken6995

7 жыл бұрын

I confused Stubb with Flask in the ole memory bank and thought "how can anybody prefer Flask to Starbuck??" Then I double checked and yeah, Stubb was a good'n. I prefer Starbuck, I think it's the romantic in me. He tried to the end to dissuade and save his mad captain... Stubb was probably wiser after all. Flask was just an asshole. Love that book, man.

This channel is pure quality.

You keep getting better each week!

"You know he dead..." Love it!

Captain Ahab, perhaps the realest nigga of all time

These videos are the best part of my week, Thanks

subscribed from day one... every episode keeps getting better. this is my shit

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner!

@FROPDESAI

8 жыл бұрын

+Dr Wolfenstein *Rime

"Bert & Ernie style"

PLEASE never stop doing these videos. Eventually word will spread and you'll get the views you deserve. This series is SO special and original. THANK YOU!!!

awesome videos, really made me think of reading the books, specially this one and the Brothers Karamazov.

With the right mindset, these 500 pages of whaling bs become pretty interesting.

@mitchkronowit3633

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It’s practically an encyclopedia about whaling at the time it was in its heyday. It also helps drag the story out, which gives the reader some sense of how excruciatingly boring much of the journey was. If the Pequod had come upon Moby Dick by page 300, the story would have felt rushed. It took them a long time to finally find that white whale.

Look into the void long enough, and you will find the void looking back at you. It pierces the soul rendering one as naked and alone as a newborn. In that vast expanse of space, you will find great beauty and meaning but also a frightening proposition that the universe itself is completely indifferent to you and your suffering.

I knew this was going to be funny AF, nice work

Lovin' it! This is so well done.

Just finished reading Moby Dick today, I had to agree with the 500 pages of whaling bullshit

why is this the only video that doesn't have a cool-ass graphic for the title, yo?

Read this in high school, used this to pass the test. I needed a recap for a college paper. Thank you Sir Thug

Great video Sparks!

Lost it at "Bert and Ernie Style"

Dis white boy ain't got no time to read paradise lost. Hook a brotha' up!!

@charliea5641

6 жыл бұрын

Kristofer Keck yo watch the overly sarcastic productions version, it's pretty good

OMG THIS REVIEW IS SO ON POINT!

I love this channel so much

Watership down!!!!!!!!!!! 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

Finally, someone has the guts to say a large chunk of that book was a lot of whaling rubbish. "Yes, thank you for that first-person documentary on whaling in the 19th century, now can you PLEASE get on with the plot?"

keep up the fantastic work thugnotes!

Best Moby Dick summary *EVER!!!*

4:03 Technically black is the lack of colour. Just sayin'

@StefanTravis

7 жыл бұрын

"black is the lack of colour" ...or invisibility is the lack of colour. Or any shade of grey that doesn't excite the eye's cone cells. Or the lack of the experience of seeing - did you think blind people saw black?

@milesj.943

7 жыл бұрын

Depends of if we're talking light or pigment. In light, you're correct, black is the absence of color, but in pigment, it's the inclusion if every color, and vise-versa for white.

@datboybigrub

7 жыл бұрын

Miles J. gotto love KZread scientists often young college students with a youtube account.

@phapnui

7 жыл бұрын

Also the definition of black.

"After about 500 pages of Ishmael going off about whaling bullshit..." This is a perfect example of why there are a lot of classics I still haven't read. Say what you want about millennials and attention spans but I'm not reading 500 pages of nonsense that could be completely cut out with no impact to the story.

Can you believe I made it all the way to age 53 without reading this book? And now it really helps me to have an idea of what I'm going to read before I read it. This video was so helpful, and beautifully done. Thanks!

This is some damn good writing B. Keep this shit up playa!

Hey, sir. Marvelous series. With this analysis, I am a little disappointed that you don't talk more about race, capitalism, limited male relationship rules and climate destruction in your discussion of Moby-Dick. I read this book a little differently. Though I am so pleased that you point out the Bert and Ernie aspects of Ishamael and Queequeg's relationship. I am a little intrigued that you buy into the idea that Ismael is the narrator's real name rather than his alias (he doesn't say "My name is Ishmael." he says "Call me Ishmael.' as though he's trying to remain icognito). Anyway, bottom line my plot of Moby Dick is this. Seeing the Quakers as hypocritical in their pursuit of capital, Ahab maintains his integrity and goes full-tilt in pursuit of the whiteness that underlies the foundation of America. In pursuit of that whiteness, the full out genocidal exploitation of the whale population is fair game, even if it means that you have to find another energy source - or in the 21st century, find another planet completely - or overturn the balance of nature. This totally male environment the guy who wants us to call him Ishmael hooks up with Queequeg like husband and wife (read the text). It is the casket of his husband, Queequeg, that floats the icognito Ishmael to safety and enables him to bear witness. This relentless pursuit of whiteness - putting muscular indigenous, African and Pacific Islander in the buffer position of killing the whales, with white folks guiding the boats that the non-white people are in - leads to one thing only - the destruction of the Ship of State (named for the exterminated Pequod tribe whose stolen land the United States of America currently occupies) and everyone currently aboard. That's what the book seems to be about to me. Whaling is only the metaphor because that was the real estate/gentrification and silicone valley of its era. The ideas of God and the Universe are interesting but of less matter compared to how these human beings have treated each other complacently.

This is a very Existentialist interpretation of a Dark Romanticist book. Yes, the whale symbolizes evil, but what's significant is that Ahab's insane desire for revenge ends in self-destruction. Melville is saying this self-destructive desire is within us all, but we decide for ourselves whether we want to be like Ahab or like Ishmael.

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damn this book is sad as hell. i'm gonna not read it....

@josephinewinter

10 жыл бұрын

it's not sad. It's rambly and descriptive and very poetic not very action, but it certainly isn't sad most of the time. It was my favourite book when i was 16 (i've evolved in reverse, i used to be an intellectual and now, at 42, i'm an amoeba who watches youtube) and it enlarged my vocabulary no end. I've always loved the sea and wanted to run away to sea when i was young. If you love the sea, or love history, or long poetic descriptions (several pages long) it's a good book for you. Or if you want to learn lots of archaic sea-going words to impress older people with.

@gjford1951

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, the book is extremely funny. And sad.

ok...I thought it was about some white boy with male virility issues.

@birgerhalvorsen8550

8 жыл бұрын

that may not be too far off, actually. the pagans are strong and virile. queequeg carries his phallic harpoon around everywhere. the white characters, however, are all kinds of messed up you could say ishmael accepts his impotence, while ahab refuses to admit his

@launabanauna8958

5 жыл бұрын

Birger Halvorsen It’s simpler then that...Moby “Dick.” Get it?

@Gadget-Walkmen

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

Thanks Thug Notes, this is my favorite book of all time.

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