It finally seems to be picking up a bit… more than 450 pages into the book. It’s like reading an encyclopedia… a whaling encyclopedia. Reading it is also like trying to cut a big, thick peice of cheese with a dull butter knife.

Well – It was worth reading. But it was very long. If you get a heavily annotated version, my advice is to just read the book and ignore the notes.

And I kind of kept thinking to myself ‘Ahab – GET OVER IT!!!’.

Anyway – good luck.

As soon as I opened it I could not put it down the style is sublime and so to my taste I’ve been dreaming for a book like this since I first started reading!

He had to put all that information about whaling somewhere.

Chapter 49:
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”