Someone who killed WHALES for a living! LOL!
Well, he managed to allow a lot of whales to get older, because of his demented search for a particular whale...
BTW, the symbolic undercarriage of Moby Dick is breathtaking...and all of it without a hint of a female character; verboten by today’s standards...
It is one of my favorite books.
I have read it at least five or six times since the Fourth Grade, when I found it in my Dad’s bookcase.
Reading it is like taking a sea voyage, rolling, rambling, and stalling, and struggling, and side trips with very strange ports of call.
It is an experience rather than a book.
If I were stuck on Alpha Ceti 5, I would be mighty glad to have it on the book rack! :-)
Of course, Mr. Racist Supremacist KHANNNNN!!!!! liked it too, so maybe the book should be banned altogether!