Episode 22 - CARAMBA!

As the famous Vera Lynn song goes, "Whale meat again", or whatever she said. David Icke, The Rest is Whale Meat, swapping tenses mid-sentence, aesthetic pleasures, whale bum as a treat, "the universality of sharkiness", a "decent" burial, a sermon for a shark, whale steak, sea-beef, "esquimaux", guess the whale, The Temple of Doom, delicious brains, Romanian creier pane, Pete's disgusting palate, Naked Lunch. This episode is the discussion about chapters 64 and 65 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Stubb's Supper and The Whale as a Dish. Follow us on social media... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

An entire podcast episode from just three pages of Moby-Dick? You'd better believe it. How do you make killing a whale more efficient? Give the labourers the luxury of free time! Melville suggests efficiency improvements for the capitalist machine in a way that Marx himself would probably describe. The inherent conflict, the dialectic, oh my! Digressions, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, meta-jokes about meta-jokes, the crotch is a notch. This episode is the discussion about chapters 62 and 63 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Dart and The Crotch. Follow us on social media... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

The best chapter ever, making ropes, flow state, critical ice, Mazeppa, MARXIST ANALYSIS, false consciousness, Charlie Chaplin, proto-Modernism, Andrew Marvell, the Terror surrounds us, Stubb kills a whale (spoilers), the slow considered surfacing of a whale, repetition, accretion, concept albums versus 7 inch singles, "cool as a cucumber", wetting the line, a horrible wallow, "Red men", the primal savage, body horror, eyeing corpses, penny dreadfuls. This episode is the discussion about chapters 60 and 61 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; The Line and Stubb Kills a Whale. Follow us on social media... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

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 mermaids, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, Anglophiles, phrenology, teuthology, Archie the squid, from unknown horrors to known horrors. This episode is the discussion about chapters 58 and 59 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Brit and Squid. Follow us on social media... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod

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 desolation, Magic Eye, the constellations, men's mental health, Vishnu as leviathan. This episode is the discussion about chapters 56 and 57 of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes; and Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in the Stars. Follow us on social media... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social Instagram: https://instagram.com/whale__pod