Episode 20 - Moby Dick
Dreaming of Dick, Garth Marenghi's 'Dickplace', "unbridled Melville going hogwild", whaling spirituality, the legend of Moby Dick, The Essex, Melville Marginalia, Thomas Beale, converging research, Mocha Dick, "Melville, or Ishmael, rather", bold assertations about how Melville wrote the book, the unconscious, Ahab's origin story, emo Melville's cry for help, penetration, Musée de Cluny, at the mercy of the subterranean forces of fate, Jules Verne, Hollow Earth, wishful thinking, The Thing, bilocation, Donald Rumsfeld, Japanese sex hotels.
NOTE: Some of Melville's collection is owned by…
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