033: chs 55-57 – Moby [Premium]

CHAPTERS 55-57: Moby Dick

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

00:00 Intro
00:40 Start of book talk
02:09 Roasting bad whale drawings
04:50 You can’t truly paint a whale. Sorry.
11:00 Vishnu, Leviathans, art rabbit holes
15:06 Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton. Yes, that one
20:11 Corsets & baleen
23:48 Whale constellations
25:27 Chapters 55-57 audio
53:25 Post-chapter booktalk
54:03 Redefining “savage”
1:01:23 One whale looks like… a squash

FULL TEXT Shownotes

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