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365 Moby Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey (A Bob Dylan Reading List) | PLUS Some thoughts on Charles M. Schulz

The History of Literature

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Book Review - Whale Oil

Moby Dick is a seafaring tale. A lot of old testament biblical allegory, gabriel, rachel, jeroboam, bilda, elijah. Pagan names as well, teshtigo, flask, dago fleece, starbuck, stub. The pagans are idol worshippers. Stubb gives no significance to anything. Says every is predestined. We see only the surface of things. We can interpret what lies below any way.

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