Annual Moby-Dick Marathon, Saturday Jan 7 at noon US Eastern

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The New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts an annual marathon reading of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and this year's reading begins this coming Saturday, January 7th, at 12 noon US Eastern time. Here's the announcement for all the associated events:

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... thon-2017/

And here's the schedule for the reading itself:

https://1thz9pe6wg37jz9s1eei99om-wpengi ... hPages.pdf

And best of all, you can livestream the whole thing right from the comfort of your computer anywhere in the world:

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... ream-2017/

So join millions of people (ok, maybe thousands; certainly hundreds) and set sail on the Pequod for the voyage of a lifetime. Safe return guaranteed, and no coffin required.

The famous Arion Press edition, with woodcuts by Barry Moser:

"Actually, I never read it."

Ten quatloos to anyone who can identify this book collection, with M-D on top:

Livestream starting in about 2 hours:

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... ream-2017/

Hmm. I'm not quite sure I can name that one.

You know what I like to do at noon, Ian? I like to sing.

Ishmael just woke up and found himself in bed with a cannibal.

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... ream-2017/

Ten cryptic quatloos for you.

Sermonizing live at the Whaleman's Chapel:

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... ream-2017/

The real New Bedford is in the middle of a blizzard today, but they still have a good in-person audience for the 21st Moby-Dick Marathon. It's being followed on Twitter, too:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/mdm21?f=twe ... t&src=hash

"better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... ream-2017/

Famous job-interview scene coming up in a moment, that might be instructive for aspies. You need to know how to answer if the interviewer asks, "Hast not been a pirate, hast thou?"

Follow along here:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... up;seq=134

"For a khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of leviathans was Ahab."

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... ream-2017/

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the Norway maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up!"

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/ ... ream-2017/