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