Let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness | Moby-Dick reread, riff 25
I. In this riff, Chapters 94-98 of Moby-Dick. In these chapters, Ishmael (again) describes the business of rendering oil and etcetera from a whale’s corpse. The chapters show again Ishmael’s push-pull narration style, vacillating between the physical/commercial and the metaphysical/philosophical. II. Ch. 94, “A Squeeze of the Hand.” A perfect chapter in a perfectly imperfect… Continue reading Let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness | Moby-Dick reread, riff 25