Moby-Dick - Herman Melville [Online meeting]

About this event

PLEASE NOTE THE DAY OF THIS MEETING \- we are back to our usual Wednesday meeting slot for this one\. An online meeting for the book will be held on Thursday the 17th of December\. This event is supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy’s Local Partners Programme (https://royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/fund-your-event/). Quest as obsession, revenge and the struggle between will and nature this month. Set sail with a single-minded Captain with a talent for rousing speeches, a cannibal you might not mind sharing a bed with and a whole host of peculiar characters as we hunt for the White Whale upon The Pequod. The meeting starts at 7pm with drink breaks at 8 and 9. The discussion will end around 10pm, but leave whenever you need to. Here's the blurb from goodreads.com: "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.