HeyJaredThe Whale Pod
A chapter-by-chapter run-through of Herman Melville's 1851 epic about a big fish: Moby-Dick.
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Episode 30 - Brit & Squid (opens the original)
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What do whales eat? Brit and squid, of course. Whales stranding in Northumberland after seeing naked Geordies, brit, seafaring Brits, baleen whales, Melville doing a Melville, dog-fish, Welsh animal names, the greatest long sentence in the book, fact-checking Melville, vengeful God, the carrot and stick of faith, Squid the cat (RIP), spoiler alert, a vast pulpy mass, the sociology of knowledge, folk-science versus science-science, Italo Calvino, semiotics, Norwegians in favour of Krakens and mer
Episode 29 - Herman Melville's Art History (Part 2) (opens the original)
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It's part two of our look at Herman Melville's art history of whales. Thomas Beale's dwarf whales, Melville Marginalia, the whole internet loves Ambrose Louis Garneray, we regret to inform you Ambrose Louis Garneray is a slaver, prison hulks, the insignificance of harpoons, H. Durand, depictions of whaling, Melville enters the cosmos, famous beggars, the reproduction of reality, Joseph Johnson with a ship on his head, authenticity, Albrecht Dürer, JFK's scrimshaw collection, magnificent desolati
Episode 28 - Herman Melville's Art History (Part 1) (opens the original)
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We ended up doing a two-parter on Herman Melville's dive into art history without planning it as a two-parter. This is the first part. Colourblindness, what's a whale, a whaling cat, Thomas Bewick, Guido Reni, gettin' yer waps out, leviathans, taxidermy, the Horniman walrus, platypus facts, Cuvier's squash, safer xenophobic ground (re: China), feed Pete's fetish, huge naturals, Ian Nairn. This episode is the discussion about chapter 55 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ; Of the Monstrous Pictures o
Episode 27 - The Town-Ho's Story (opens the original)
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GAM. Noun— A social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats' crews: the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other. Yer mum, gamming, Salisbury Plain, Noah Webster's Arc, captainly dignity, the whaling cinematic universe, forgetting Queequeg's name, postmodern storytelling, universal outcast seaman, Steelkilt, the funniest line in the book, Billy Budd, f
Episode 26 - The Spirit-Spout (opens the original)
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Charting the course of the Pequod, the mechanics of sailing, Melville's ableist alliteration, Pete's cats, Melville's anxiety dream, the skeleton ship, Pete's cats fight, Ahab's trance, subtext is for cowards, transformation, Ahab becomes a wankpuffin, the great mystery of reading, Melville the sicko, well, well, Welsh. This episode is the discussion about chapters 51 and 52 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ; The Spirit-Spout, and The Pequod Meets the Albatross. Follow us on social media... Bluesk
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