In which Rosianna tries something new and writes an original song/rap/book review/recommendation/who knows. twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/papertimelady READ MOBY DICK THOUGH SRSLY: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553213119 so there was this book i had to read for class it was pretty long, I read it once, I read it fast I was a keen thirteen but it went over my head read it this time and thought critically instead when people saw what I was reading, they got pretty pissed and yelled "you're reading moby dick, I f-ing hate that shit so i asked them if they'd read it and they said NO WAY I just sparksnoted it and thought that it was lame I said pot calling kettle, your insults have a limp read up on some shakespeare, you foul defaced shrimp once you've done so, read moby dick a-gaiiiin the bard's on every page, even hamlet the dane when that whale head is hanging above the pequod ship and ishmael is talking , hello alas poor yorick? don't - get me started on paradise lost melville ref milton like a bowser boss oh good morning fair is foul and foul is fair worse to serve in heaven than reign in satan's lair after the storm east is west and west is east HM even refs leviathan, a biblical beast this book talks about dragons it has cannibals all about sea adventures and that's not all sperm whale anatomy -- how could you resist! if you still say you hate it, feel free to meet my fist now a brief interlude with our fictional friends who'll let you how moby dick ends please don't pull a river song and say SPOILERS if you give me that crap I'll put your face in a boiler B: NOT ON THE BOAT I AM THE BOAT W: F YOU, I AM THE WHALE B: I'M ON ZACK AND CODY W: I EMBODY TWITTER FAIL B: I HAVE CAPTAIN AHAB, A ONE LEGGED CRAZY DUDE W: WHO I DRAG DOWN WHEN I DIE - he's TASTY SHARK FOOD. MIGHT I ALSO REMIND YOU THAT YOU'RE DRAGGED DOWN TOO? B: BY THE VORTEX I CREATED W: BUT YOU PULLED DOWN YOUR CREW! B: WHO CARES! JACK SPARROW RODE ME W: DON'T YOU KNOW I'M TEAM NINJA B: You're no ninja turtle, YOU'RE TEAM MUTANT, YOU MINGER Hey hey hey back off moby dick alright I know his name is slang for man bits But I just spent six hundred pages reading about whaling And if you watch the cove you know it's not plain sailing not surprised moby bit off ahab's leg (twice) That captain doesn't know how to be nice He's too busy with mad pip and at night soliloquising Just like me in my dorm room when I'm sposed to be revising I'm not gonna pretend that this book isn't heavy literally and metaphorically, and urbanely -- you geddit? There's so much to Melville's sea epic That you'd be missing out if you've only read it On sparknotes or wikipedia or not even bothered And don't even think this video has you covered I didn't mention whiteness, or jonah, or god There's so much to be said about the pequod But to go into that? We don't have time mes belles So start with these words, Call me Ishmael.

• published: 04 Apr 2011
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