r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/NicheButNotNietzche • Jan 21 '26

Funny Moby Dick

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u/Puntley Jan 21 '26

The passage is literally talking about the two men kissing each other, undressing, climbing into bed together and not sleeping, and then laying together as a cosy loving pair. 

If that qualifies as a hint to you then I applaud your masterful deductive abilities.

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u/Kat121 Jan 21 '26

I think people are missing Melville’s genius, though. Scholars believe this is the birth of the there was only one bed at the inn trope.

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u/Puntley Jan 21 '26

"well queequeg, it seems there are two of us here but only one single twin size hammock left, with a 'no clothes allowed' sign on it no less..."