CHAPTER 44: Moby Dick
Premium chapter audio can be found on the Moby Dick book page.
- 00:00 Intro
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00:36 Start of book talk
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4:06 – What The Chart is really about
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7:30 – The real warning of Moby Dick
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9:17 – The unhooped oceans
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15:05 – Isn’t this madness?
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17:21 – The Prometheus connection
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20:45 – Chapter Audio
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34:30 – Post-chapter booktalk
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36:23 – Charts as obsession
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41:28 – Magical thinking and false certainty
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45:43 – Ahab isn’t the villain
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50:34 – Blankness, whiteness, and horror
FULL TEXT Shownotes
- Intro music: Upon a Nameless Tide by Aaron Ordover
- Outro: Adrift in Blue Hours by Aldrin Adolfo