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In Herman Melville’s iconic 1851 novel “Moby-Dick ... whale steak. Apparently Malloy adores these chapters and doesn’t mean to make fun of them. But that’s a hard line to draw in the blubber.

“There are these passages where they are squeezing the whale ... blubber. Both works premiered to widespread acclaim last year — “Of Whales” at the Venice Biennale, and “Moby Dick ...

Their mission was to fill the ship with whale blubber, an essential resource ... and the story blossomed into “Moby-Dick.” Before he wrote his legacy-defining work, a 21-year-old Melville ...

Of all the classic novels in modern literature, Herman Melville’s long, discursive Moby-Dick may be one ... how whalers processed blubber and the anatomy of whale skeletons.

When I want adventure, I grab my copy of “Moby Dick.” A flip to a random page ... Several pages on, the stench of burning whale blubber is burning my eyes. A few chapters more, and I ...

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Their mission was to fill the ship with whale blubber, an essential resource ... and the story blossomed into “Moby-Dick.” Before he wrote his legacy-defining work, a 21-year-old Melville ...