Episode 23 - The Affidavit
Happy birthday Melville, bronze whale bones, the whaling ports of Britain, the believability of The Salt Path, reading Marx, deconstructing fictional narrative, the gravitational mass of Moby-Dick, the whale ship Essex, George Pollard - an unlucky man, Melville's biography being more insane and fantastical than his writing, Captain DeWolf, an under-the-radar three-word Arnie quote, Lionel Wafer's Toast of London-ass name, "In conclusion, Moby-Dick is a book of contrasts...", the tyrant's precariousness, joyriding the ocean and ramraiding a whale, solving the Middle East.
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