Moby Dick

026: Interlude – Moby [Premium]

EPISODE 26: Interlude

Premium chapter audio can be found on the Moby Dick book page.

Note: here’s the link to the video of the homework: https://youtu.be/mcPmYDeZAp8

  • 00:00 Intro

  • 02:01 Emerson 101

  • 05:18 The transparent eyeball

  • 9:45 Ishmael as the ultimate observer

  • 14:31 Optimism vs. ambiguity

  • 17:32 Pasteboard masks

  • 22:28 Back to etymologies and extracts

  • 31:35 “Give it up, Sub-sub” 😆

  • 33:26 Shakespear and theater

  • 40:06 Loomings

  • 42:01 Revisiting chapters 16 and 18

  • 43:44 Revisiting chapter 19

  • 55:38 Homework for next episode

FULL TEXT Shownotes
  • Intro music: Upon a Nameless Tide by Aaron Ordover
  • Outro: Adrift in Blue Hours by Aldrin Adolfo