Episode 3: Kissing Lessons

We're back from The Game Zone having overcome the Audacity Curse to get our first good glimpse at the life of Queequeg and the developing relationship between our two best buds. Talking points include chrononormativity, formalist defamiliarisation, the symbolism of the wheelbarrow, flightless birds and Microsoft Flight Simulator, Presbyterianism, the hot drama of Melville and Hawthorne's breakup, and our pivot to a relationship advice podcast.

Chapters Covered: 10. A Bosom Friend to 13. Wheelbarrow. 

Quote of the Week: 👑 “Yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.” 👑

Links and Notes:

• The Question Bucket.
• Call in to feature on an episode here!
• Theme music by Josie Brechner. Find more of her work at josiebrechner.com.
• Song of the Week: I Melt With You by Modern English.
• Marsha C. Vick, ‘Defamiliarization’ and the Ideology of Race in ‘Moby-Dick’.
• Toni Morrison, Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature.
• Dan Grossman, How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale.

🗣: Dibbs (@MLDibbs), Karlis (@townout), Lattner (@andrewsplattner), and Matthew (@mrfb).