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What it do fam? Sparky Sweets here,
and today I’m breakin down this

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WHALE of a book: Moby Dick by
Herman Melville.

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Just look at this damn thing. Over
600 pages and all dat happens is

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basically this- Some bruh callin’
himself Ishmael crew up on a hooptyass

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whaling boat, where a Captain
named Ahab only got one thing on

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his mind- icin’ Moby Dick, the
giant white whale that jacked his

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leg. Eventually they find dat
fool’s pasty ass, Moby wrecks da

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whole boat, and errybody die cept
Ishmael.

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First off, dat fat-ass whale is mo’
than just a fish. Like we hearin in

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chapters 36 and 40, Moby Dick
sometimes symbolizin’ da unknown,

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otha times he reppin all da mess
humanity gotta grind through, and

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sometimes, he reppin God himself.

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See, Ahab got mad beef wit da fact
dat da world is a twisted place

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where bad sh** happen on da reg and
there ain’t nuthin we can do about

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it. Whereas mos’ homies would jus’
sit back, light up a J, and accept

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it, Ahab don’t play like dat. He
gonna take all dat anger, pin it on

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Moby Dick, and spend erry second of
his life rebellin’. Not against a

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whack society. But a whack
existence. And even though scrappin

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wit da way da world works is a
fight dat nobody can win, Ahab

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gonna keep goin til he’s six feet
deep.

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Das why in Chapter 36 Ahab say “be
the white whale agent, or be the

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white whale principal, I will wreak
that hate upon him. Talk not to me

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of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the
sun if it insulted me.”

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In other words, I don’t give a damn who you is- God, the Sun,

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the Universe- you act like a bitch,
I’ma treat you like a bitch.

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Now if dat ain’t da realest gangsta
sh** you eva’ heard, then you ain’t

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been payin attention homeboy. Catch
y’all later. Peace.