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  • Egon [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    Most of the book can be skipped truthfully. There's about 80 chapters of whale facts and the first of those starts with "I know all there is to know about whales, so let me set the record straight: whales are fish" and then he goes on to list things which whales are larger than.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      He also stops the narrative dead in its tracks to go into an essay about the symbolic power of the color white, in case you, the reader, didn't get it.

      • Egon [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        It's nice to have a story that isn't full of all the symbolism or metaphors. Just a guy trying to catch a whale

        • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          I mean I guess it doesn't count as subtext if the author is going to the trouble to spell out what he means

      • Egon [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        Now imagine they didn't have a time skip fast forwarding thru all the ways to cook shrimp, but just had 80 chapters of ways to cook shrimp. And the first of those chapters being demonstrably wrong.