Episode 6 - Biographical
The longest episode of The Whale Pod so far, as Leigh Jones and Peter Mitchell discuss Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Covering only 14 pages of the novel, a lot of ground is covered, including (but not limited to)...
Ishmael was the proto-Louis Theroux, Melville mocks performative readers (not us who are reading for a podcast, though, never), Ishmael loitering in the smoking area of a club, Herman Melville's Pub Landlord, tea-towelisation, Peter the Great's Wikipedia page, "up yours, honkies", Franz Boas, KARL MARX! KARL MARX! KARL MARX!, emergent Modernity, and Nihilism...
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