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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2017

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Ester Bloom

    I'll confess I lost faith in Moby Dick when Melville kept assuring readers that whales are fish, not mammals.https://twitter.com/shorterstory/status/889186215554981888 …

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    Ester BloomVerified account @shorterstory
    Replying to @chrislhayes @ebruenig
    The smartest thing anyone ever told me about MOBY DICK was don't be afraid to skim. And it's worth it: The end really is amazing.
    11:17 AM - 23 Jul 2017
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      1. Jan van de Rieth‏ @JvdRieth 23 Jul 2017
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        A friend of mine thought it was about Moby's dick. She was supremely disappointed.

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      1. Dr. MadScientistPhD‏ @MadScientistPhD 23 Jul 2017
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        SPOILERS!!!

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      1. Yossarian‏ @Dzigavertovv 23 Jul 2017
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        Though I understand he was also the first to apply taxonomy of subgroups of whales and dolphins

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      2. Ester Bloom‏Verified account @shorterstory 23 Jul 2017
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        I was there for plot and allegory and unparalleled, astonishing homoeroticism, not science, so yeah, didn't bother me :)

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2017
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        Well, almost all 19th century America literature is pretty homoerotic (except Hawthorne). But yeah, Moby Dick takes it up a notch

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      1. Michael Snow Tires On My S2000 Cohen‏ @mdcohen 23 Jul 2017
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        The essay chapters are the best part

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      1. Furry Idris Elba (GOLF CHEAT)  🇺🇦‏ @x_t_pd 23 Jul 2017
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        I recall reading aware that such reassurances were supposed to be a parody of some debate or other?

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      1. Estarianne, BS, MA, A.N.T.I.F.A.  👩🏼‍💻‏ @estarianne 23 Jul 2017
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        Why do people read classics they don't enjoy?

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