Moby Dick

That afternoon, i was watching a movie. Dunno what the title, but i think it was made around of early 90s. The movie is about several people who were reunited, and suddenly one of them misteriously disappeared. At the middle of the movie, they found out that in fact the building that they were stepped on was a psychopath's apartement which is now hiding from police pursuit. I remember couple scenes before the end, one of the characters talked about Moby Dick. Then i searched for Moby Dick on Wikipedia, and found out the book itself has 822 pages. I was just amazed because for me, it takes about a week to read 300 pages of romance novel nowadays. Sometimes i still got bored when i read novels like Twilight and kind of them. What about a hunting-whale-book like Moby Dick? Herman Melville wrote 822 pages about how to hunt a giant whale. He must has nother useful work or maybe he does love writing. After i read a lot info of Moby Dick, and also several posts from another blogs, I learned that whaling was the messiest, slimiest, smelliest job in the world. It involved traveling long distances on the open sea to catch whales, then lifting their carcasses onto your boat, and carving them up and boiling the fat to make oil. I also learned that in the olden days whales could sink whaleships. A huge whale with a skull like a battering ram did it in 1821, which is how a bunch of unlucky sailors ended up floating around on the ocean in small boats that they had to eat some of their shipmates in order to survive. Now i want to show you couple hand-paintings of Moby Dick which is i think it's amazing. I'm pretty sure they have never seen Moby Dick, but they were argue that whales they have been painted is Moby Dick. Old people. Take a look;