Moby Dick Literature Meme Mugs

Women shun me. My crew fears me. The sea beckons me. The whale torments me. From Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale. Check out more of my art and products at https://spacedoglaika.com/

From hell's heart I stab at thee!

The opening of Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby-Dick, in white, antique-typewriter-style lettering.

This would be the cutest wall art for an ocean theme nursery. This oil painting of a whale and ship by children's book writer Monica Michelle puts a fun twist turning Moby Dick into a game of tag with gold foil typography. I'm also a sucker for the shiplap (Thank you, Joanna Gaines, for this particular obsession) Today is the anniversary of Moby Dick being published in what can only be described as the worst game of ocean tag ever between a one-legged sailor and a whale.

This print shows the incredible moment when the Monster Whale Moby Dick breaks through the water while under attack from Ahab and his crew!

There was nothing Moby Dick hated more than giving directions to sailors who had gotten themselves lost. And so it was that young Ahab developed a deep, abiding hatred for the stubborn whale. "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

".. all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick."

A quick design.

Ishmael enters the Spouter-Inn, meets the proprietor, and discovers that all the rooms are booked. But, he is offered to share a bed with one patron who has not yet returned that evening, a harpooneer who is off “selling his head”. Ishmael agrees, reluctantly, and settles in for the evening. He eats dinner with a taciturn and silent collection of fellow sailors, and then meets a raucous grew returning from a long whaling voyage. Ishmael decides he really can’t deal with sleeping two to a bed, and tells the landlord he will sleep on a bench in the parlor instead. But, the bench proves too uncomfortable, so he is forced to go up to the harpooneer’s room.

"omg ahab! you can't just ask whales if they're white!"

Whenever you find yourself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in your soul; before you find yourself methodically knocking people’s hats off in the middle of the street—count it high time you get to sea as soon as you can!

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it." - Herman Melville

It's not down in any map, true places never are

Moby Dick Whale Bookworm Funny Retro Vintage Meme

A terrifying tale of the deep!

The Spouter-Inn is a podcast about the "great books" we love to read—but also questioning what that category of "great books" even means. Its logo is a white whale swimming along, carrying a copy of Moby-Dick, thinking about what it has read and looking forward to when it will get to read the next chapter.

Tell ’em who your favorites are!

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and not at all maniacally

The opening of Herman Melville's famous epic novel, Moby-Dick, in white, distressed, vintage typewriter-style lettering. See who else gets it.

"I try all things, I achieve what I can"

Reflecting the world around them, fourteen writers offer different styles of unforgettable storytelling and inspiring non-fiction prose, these are the opening passages of fourteen classic works of literature. They range from Homer's The Iliad, The Art of War to Lincoln's “The Gettysburg Address” to the famous lines from Dickens' A tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times..."

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Moby Dick, the white whale is in front of a ship's wheel with spokes made of harpoons

My Homage to the great "Moby Dick" and Mastodon's theme album "Leviathan". Huge fan of both!

Moby Dick Fanart

Tale of a Whale

A quick design.

Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick shows the white whale in front of a ship’s wheel made of harpoons, Ahab’s “fixed purpose…laid with iron rail.” Selected quote shows Ahab’s hatred and determination.

A ships’ wheel with harpoon spokes and the white whale Moby Dick and title on a blue background

Melville's Moby Dick shows the white whale and white text

Melville's Moby Dick image shows Moby Dick image with title in Black text

Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick shows the white whale in front of a ship’s wheel made of harpoons, Ahab’s “fixed purpose…laid with iron rail.”

Melville's Moby Dick. The Pequod, searches for Moby Dick. A ships wheel connects us to the Pequod. Moby Dick waits.

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