var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-28532250-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @mobydickaday)http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/Or, three chapters that have nothing at all to do with one another.  And don’t transition well.  In...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/16299371024http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/16299371024Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:35:03 -0500It only took 120 pages, but we finally catch a glimpse of Captain Ahab.  We’ve been told that he has...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15776029908http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15776029908Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:12:48 -0500Moby Dickbad tripsavast““Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15704651990http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15704651990Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:05:40 -0500One last thing about how great whaling is!   British coronations are conducted with whale oil! [Does...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15520248211http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15520248211Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:00:24 -0500 Or, “Merry Christmas, Bulkington!  Can I interest you in a brief history of whaling?”  So the...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15246201159http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15246201159Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:38:55 -0500MobyDick““He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk pipe, which, it...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15042683356http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15042683356Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:55:48 -0500When Ishmael and Queequeg leave the ship after their meeting, they are stopped by a bit of a loon...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15041601026http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/15041601026Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:33:53 -0500 Ishmael is dispatched to sign up for a three-year whaling voyage while Queequeg observes a...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981865505http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981865505Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:57:49 -0500 After pawning the shrunken head at a barbershop, Ishmael and Queequeg take the proceeds and catch...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981818845http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981818845Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:56:50 -0500 In which Ishmael and Queequeg become BFFs. Q offers Ishmael his “wild pipe,” makes a gift of an...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981773097http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981773097Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:55:51 -0500This triad of chapters fortuitously deals with church. Like any town where lots of people die doing...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981718099http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981718099Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:54:40 -0500Ishmael awakens the following morning and discovers that a.) Queequeg is totally spooning him, and...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981670706http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981670706Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:53:38 -0500So Ishmael decides that he needs to spend some time on the sea, so he leaves Manhattan and sets out...http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981620481http://mobydickaday.tumblr.com/post/14981620481Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:52:32 -0500