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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Most of the book can be skipped truthfully. There's about 80 chapters of whale facts and the first of those starts with "I know all there is to know about whales, so let me set the record straight: whales are fish" and then he goes on to list things which whales are larger than.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

He also stops the narrative dead in its tracks to go into an essay about the symbolic power of the color white, in case you, the reader, didn't get it.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's nice to have a story that isn't full of all the symbolism or metaphors. Just a guy trying to catch a whale

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

I mean I guess it doesn't count as subtext if the author is going to the trouble to spell out what he means

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 9 months ago

Only cowards use subtext!

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know all the ways to cook whale.

Gumbo whale

Fried whale

Coconut whale…

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Now imagine they didn't have a time skip fast forwarding thru all the ways to cook shrimp, but just had 80 chapters of ways to cook shrimp. And the first of those chapters being demonstrably wrong.

[–] IsThisLoss@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Chatgpt vegan outdoor cat cookbook time

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

Tbf, that's also how my brain works when i'm trying to concentrate.