Captain Ahab/Moby Dick: a drabble*
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x_losI was hampered in writing this drabble by not actually knowing how this book, which I never finished (and by never finished I mean 'as am ambitious 12 year old I read maybe 25 pages and then just said 'oh fuck it' and went back to my Austen), actually ends. LUCKY FOR YOU ALL, I have wiki. Initially this was written for Katy, but TRAGICALLY she was unable to Truly Appreciate My Opus.
MY HIGH ART, LET ME SHOW YOU IT:
"There was, in fact, no adequate preparation for Moby’s dick. Ahab had dreamed so many nights of impaling the beast on his harpoon. Maimed by the creature, he’d been deranged with lust to hurt it in turn: to thrust again and again into that pale white flesh, to consume the whale’s hot meat like an Eskimo. Now, Ahab grunted, bearing the beast’s vengeance. “For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee,” he’d told the creature—but the leviathan was disinclined to offer him even such meager lube as spit. Perhaps he’d been unwise to grapple with a Sperm Whale."
*Did you know the Ahab character was a Quaker? This fic is 10x better if you imagine this happening with him wearing the Quaker Oats guy outfit. Or just the whale wearing that hat. Jauntily.
MY HIGH ART, LET ME SHOW YOU IT:
"There was, in fact, no adequate preparation for Moby’s dick. Ahab had dreamed so many nights of impaling the beast on his harpoon. Maimed by the creature, he’d been deranged with lust to hurt it in turn: to thrust again and again into that pale white flesh, to consume the whale’s hot meat like an Eskimo. Now, Ahab grunted, bearing the beast’s vengeance. “For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee,” he’d told the creature—but the leviathan was disinclined to offer him even such meager lube as spit. Perhaps he’d been unwise to grapple with a Sperm Whale."
*Did you know the Ahab character was a Quaker? This fic is 10x better if you imagine this happening with him wearing the Quaker Oats guy outfit. Or just the whale wearing that hat. Jauntily.
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Date: 2008-11-26 06:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-26 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-26 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-26 10:10 am (UTC)apparently not. but still - i see that it is appreciated from other corners. so that's nice.
Your icon seeems to mock me.
Date: 2008-11-26 11:19 am (UTC)No, my art lives on in my gmail. I edited this, even! Perfected it, as it were. And yes, see, see how other people appreciate my vision?! I cannot be stifled by mere deletion!
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Date: 2008-11-26 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-26 07:39 pm (UTC)LMAO on the inside
Date: 2008-11-27 03:00 am (UTC)*chortles* But I didn't know Ahab was Quaker. That's...that's hysterical. Good show, Mr. Melville!
Re: LMAO on the inside
Date: 2008-11-28 10:05 am (UTC)Doesn't that make everything better?!
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Date: 2008-11-26 05:43 pm (UTC)In The Navy!
Date: 2008-11-26 07:52 pm (UTC)Re: In The Navy!
Date: 2008-11-26 11:39 pm (UTC)One thing I will say for Melville is that he obviously found On the Wealth of Nations just as repugnant as I.
Re: In The Navy!
Date: 2008-11-28 11:28 am (UTC)Um, any book with spontaneous combustion? Has my vote.
re: Wealth of Nations--> gross books, I had to have the Ayn Rand is Not Okay talk with someone last night. Muy. Triste.
--when will bitches learn?
Erin