(It's amazing how many people think Ahab kills Moby Dick in fact, the whale wins.)" You have this suicidal misanthrope who finds himself caught up in the madness of a ship of fools, observing nature in the most metaphysical manner, and who-spoiler alert-survives as an orphan of the sea. His favorite line from the book: "those three short words which are an entire narrative in themselves: 'Call me Ishmael.' So, is that his name? That uncertainly pervades the rest of the book. He also took one look at my whale photos and said, 'That's just whale porn.' " The power of reading it in New England and seeing whales in the wild for the first time turned me into a whalehead-or 'whale stalker,' as John Waters accused me. Only when I discovered how wickedly subversive, pornographically funny and deeply demented it is, did I realise it was my book for life. He once faked reading Moby Dick: "Tried to read it three times. One of the books that creates a polarized response is Moby Dick-people love it or hate it, but Philip Hoare's ( The Sea Inside) paean reaches a new level of passion (and unexpectedness). In our Pro issues, we run a regular feature called Book Brahmin where we ask people about their reading tastes.
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