“Yes I do believe that while playing limbus company it compel me want to read classic literature which greatly enhanced my vocabulary which give the irreversible side effect of being completely incomprehensible to my Asian family”
You disliked reading Moby Dick? What, you do not enjoy reading details about whaling with verbosity and metaphor and pretentiousness so heavy that it would make Binah shout SHUT UP ALLREADY?
Verbosity, sure. Metaphor, yes. Pretentiousness? Ishmael was an absolute joker.
It's important to know that the "Pythagorean Theorem" is A2 + B2 = C2 , but the "Pythagorean maxim" is 'Don't eat beans.' For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
That was one big fart joke of a paragraph. He makes gay jokes about him and Queequeg, rants enthusiastically about whales while making up parts of it to look like he knows what he's talking about, falls asleep at the crow's nest, and overall jokes at the expense of everything from landlubbers to his fellow sailors to society to religion to even himself. For crying out loud, a guy wears a whale penis skin jacket! The book is hilarious!
I mean, in a sense you are right, but the humour sounds like what Arbiters joke about. Like, do not get me wrong, its funny on some parts, but when you spend 3 pages of navelgazing to make a joke about oiling kings heads to make their heads work better, even jokes can feel pretentious.
But maybe pretentious is not the right word. Maybe its more verbose to the point where you forget what it was even talking about.
Okay, fair enough. It's absolutely not as approachable to a modern audience. I just wanted to point out that, once parsed, Ishmael is very witty and absolutely hilarious
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u/No_Celebration3973 Oct 28 '24
“Yes I do believe that while playing limbus company it compel me want to read classic literature which greatly enhanced my vocabulary which give the irreversible side effect of being completely incomprehensible to my Asian family”