Post by marco26 on Oct 22, 2019 21:01:34 GMT
..partly.
It's not like I can be mad about a spoiler in a book this old.
But alas it's true.. I did not know. LOL
Look, I'm not going to spoil the book for you either way...but there are some works of art where you know what happens even if you've never read or seen it. There are people who have never seen KING KONG, but I guarantee you they know that the big guy climbed to the top of the Empire State Building. "Romeo And Juliet"? I guarantee you that people know the ending to that without having read it.
The ending of "Moby Dick" is not written for shock value. "Moby Dick" isn't a "Game Of Thrones" book, you know. I will say this -- the end of "Moby Dick" achieves a level of brilliance never before reached in literature. It is utterly astonishing. When I finished the last sentence of that book I put the book down and literally said, "Holy shit." True story.
Just curious, are you aware of what is called the "interstitial chapters" in "Moby Dick"?