Moby Dick is actually a whaling manual hidden within an adventure story. There’s a bunch of how-to stuff that was used by whalers as a reference. It’s part of why it was written. It’s also why it’s incredibly tedious to read for modern audiences. We don’t want to read 20 pages of whale biology describing the location of each of their organs or 50 pages of how to process the blubber into oil.
Animal Farm doesn’t even teach you how to farm, making it completely fictional. Moby Dick has sections longer than all of Animal Farm and 1984 combined talking about random whale shit like describing actual whale shit and the best knots to use while running rope through it.
Animal Farm is a work of fiction, God damn it. You can tell because it is located in the same section of the library as Moby Dick and The Hobbit.
Moby Dick is actually a whaling manual hidden within an adventure story. There’s a bunch of how-to stuff that was used by whalers as a reference. It’s part of why it was written. It’s also why it’s incredibly tedious to read for modern audiences. We don’t want to read 20 pages of whale biology describing the location of each of their organs or 50 pages of how to process the blubber into oil.
Animal Farm doesn’t even teach you how to farm, making it completely fictional. Moby Dick has sections longer than all of Animal Farm and 1984 combined talking about random whale shit like describing actual whale shit and the best knots to use while running rope through it.
Don’t forget the multi-page philosophical defense of the “whale is a fish” school of thought.
You don’t need multiple pages for that you just need cladistics. Whales are tetrapods, and tetrapods are lobe finned fishes.
[furiously taking notes in notebook] “get… all… my… politics… from… Moby… Dick…”
You could do worse
Animal farm, for instance
you should also quote the ompa lompa songs at people as if they were profound truths