Moby Dick Tweet 90-fin

Ch90

Ishmael speaks on the topic of rightful ownership of the whale.

A whale’s head belongs to the king, and its tail to the queen, base of course on the most useful parts to each respective sex. Yeah it doesn’t make too much sense.

Ch91

The Pequod discovers a French ship harvesting already dead whales, and Stubb tricks the French into leaving the whales so that he may harvest them.

Stubb’s a clever dog, stealing another ship’s whales and whatnot.

Ch92

Ambergris is used in all sort of fancy and high class leisure tools such as pipes and perfume.

Ch93

Stubb loses a whale due to Pip’s cowardice and must let Pip drown when he again jumps from the boat in the middle of a hunt.

Stubb let Pip drown on take two. Serves him right trying to ruin the business and all that.

Ch94

Ishmael is charged with the task of squeezing oil out of the blubber.

Ishmael loves spermaceti to possibly an unhealthy degree.

Ch95

The mincer on board wears the skin of the whale like a coat.

The mincer wears the whale skin as a coat. Say What?!?!?!?!?!

Ch96

Ishmael zones out at the tiller and nearly capsizes the ship.

Ishmael needs to pay more attention to his job and less to everything else.

Ch97

Whalers have good lamps because the oil is fresh.

We have fresh oil because we kill whales. Oh wait why the hell  wouldn’t you be able to use common sense to determine that and not waste a three paragraph chapter?

Ch98

A whale is killed and harvested, dirtying the ship. The ship is cleaned and then the process repeats.

Blah, blah, blah, blah whaling gets repetitive, whaling gets repetitive.

Ch99

Ishmael talks to great extent about the doubloon that Ahab has promised and a strange madness seems to ensue.

More money for Moby Dick

Ch100

Ahab meets a an English captain who has lost his arm to Moby Dick, but is too frightened to continue to hunt him.

Moby Dick strikes again and Ahab feels the creature drawing closer. He will have his head!!!!!!!!!!!

Ch102

Ishmael explains how he learned his knowledge about the insides of a whale

Ishmael is quite the biologist.

Ch103

Ishmael gives a thorough explanation of a sperm whale’s skeleton.

Ishmael knows his whale bones

Ch104

Ishmael then delves into the fossils of whales as the title suggests.

Ishmael is also an expert archeologist. Who knew?

Ch105

Ishmael begins to talk about other species that were hunted and touches on the issue of extinction.

Are whale’s immortal?

Ch106

Ahab leg is a hindrance for him.

The ivory leg has cause Ahab problems? No way?

Ch107

Ishmael talks about the carpenter.

The carpenter, read the title!

Ch108

Ahab visits the carpenter to have a new leg crafted for him.

Time for Ahab’s leg rotation.

Ch109

Some of the oil barrels have sprung a leak, but Ahab refuses to stop and repair them. Starbuck questions this, but is threatened with a musket.

Ahab is God of the ship, and a little backwards in his priorities.

Ch110

The good news is that the oil wasn’t actually leaking, the bad news is that Queequeg is very ill.

Oh no Queequeg is deathly ill! :O

Ch111

Ahab shouts about the white whale near Japan.

White Whale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thou shalt DIE

Ch112

The blacksmith on board lost it all and joined the crew.

Let us take a moment and meet the blacksmith. Word?

Ch113

Ahab asks if the blacksmith can hammer out the dents in his head, but then orders him to fashion him a dozen harpoons for the white whale.

Ahab: The white whale drives me mad, and the only remedy is to kill him. More harpoons!!!!!!

Ch114

Ishmael thinks the ship is sailing on flowers, and Ahab and Starbuck aren’t happy, but Stubb is always happy.

Poof the Pequod was transported to a magical sea of flowers.

Ch115

The Pequod finds a very successful ship, but since they haven’t seen Moby Dick Ahab refuses to stop and gab.

White whale or bust.

Ch116

Four whales are killed and one by Ahab.

Ahab continues to get his revenge on whalekind.

Ch117

Ahab’s boat watches his slain whale all night and Ahab talks with Parsee about his dreams of hearses and Parsee explains that Ahab can not die at sea.

Ahab is immortal at sea.

Ch118

Ahab conitues to search for the white whale even if it kills him.

Ahab’s got bad cards in this game of revenge, but he’s going to play them.

Ch119

A storm reeks havoc on the Pequod and the crew is terrified, but Ahab remains unwavering and continues to sail into it.

Ahab is fearless, storms bow before him.

Ch120

Starbuck urges Ahab to take down the sail, but Ahab simply orders everything to be secure as they ride out the storm.

More of Ahab being fearless.

Ch121

Flask and Stubb talk about extra insurance and that it should be needed for boarding a ship with Ahab.

Flask and Stubb shall be monkeys no more.

Ch122

Tashtego chants while working.

Tashtego had a promising career as a musical star had he not decided to be a whaler.

Ch123

Starbuck finds Ahab sleeping in his cabin and considers heavily killing him with the musket he had previously been threatened with.

Starbuck chickens out of killing Ahab.

Ch124

The compass supposedly break, but Starbuck thinks Ahab is just trying to fool them until he fixes it so that it points east where the sun is.

Ahab is god of magnetism too.

Ch125

The log line snaps and one crew member begins to hallucinate visions of Pip.

The crew is going loco.

CH126

The life-buoy is lost and a new one is to be made from Queequeg’s no longer needed coffin.

Oh by the way Queequeg is perfectly fine. Hooray!

Ch127

Ahab dislikes the carpenter because he can make several different items.

Ahab is silly.

Ch128

The Pequod finds the Rachel who has seen the white whale close by, and Ahab is so anxious he refuses to help find the captain’s son.

Let weight it out. Other man’s son or Moby Dick? MOBY FREAKING DICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ch129

Ahab has a vision of Pip who wishes to accompany him.

Ahab starts to go crazy too. Wait I mean Ahab continues to have the crazies.

Ch130

Ahab personally sit on deck constantly to watch the White Whale.

More Ahab obsession.

Ch131

The Pequod meets another ship who lost five men to Moby Dick.

Ahab is pumped.

Ch132

Ahab tells Starbuck that he has been whaling for forty years and might be a fool, Starbuck tries to convince him to go home, but Ahab will not.

Ahab show weakness. No way!

ch133

Ahab encounters Moby Dick and is almost swallow by him, but luckily manages to fall into the. The whale temporarily escapes and the chase resumes.

Moby Dick wins round one.

Ch134

The Pequod battles Moby Dick again this time Ahab’s leg snaps and the Parcee is drowned.

Moby Dick wins round two.

Ch135

Moby Dick and the Pequod have one final clash in which Moby Dick destroys the Pequod and all of its crew.

Flawless Victory for Moby Dick

Epilogue

Ishmael is saved by the coffin life-buoy and picked up by the Rachel.

I know how weird I just somehow managed to survive this crazy adventure that no one else could.