[ SECRET POST #2585 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2585 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Monster High]


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03.
[Bryan Fuller, John Green]


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04.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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05.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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06.
[Breaking Bad]


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07.
[Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]


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08.
[Reign]


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09.
[Leviathan: the last day of the decade]


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10.
[Sherlock Holmes]


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11.
[Steam]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #369.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[chardmonster]

Yeah, and I like Van Gogh for the visuals.

Why is this a secret? Which FUCKING IDIOT told you Melville is a bad writer?

OY

[(Anonymous)]

My eleventh-grade English teacher did.

Re: OY

[(Anonymous)]

Er...that should be "OP."

Re: OY

[ginainthekingsroad]

Well "Oy vey!" is a legitimate response to that, so I think you're good.

Re: OY

[(Anonymous)]

I interpreted it as the poster shouting OI! in a manner of shock, indignation, and surprise. It amused me very much.

Re: OY

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. *chuckles*

[(Anonymous)]

Psst: teachers can be wrong.

OY!

[chardmonster]

Your eleventh grade English teacher had bad taste.

Hell, ESPECIALLY Moby Dick! The first paragraph of Moby Dick is a fucking masterpiece. I think the problem is people take it so seriously. The chapters about whale bits and pieces? THEY ARE MEANT TO BE FUNNY!

Re: OY!

[(Anonymous)]

Wait what.

AND ALL THESE YEARS I THOUGHT I WAS A PHILISTINE FOR LAUGHING AT THE PARTS WHERE MELVILLE SPENDS TEN PAGES TALKING ABOUT SPERM?!

Re: OY!

[chardmonster]

http://pitt-crit-reading.blogspot.com/2011/03/squeeze-that-sperm.html

The thing to learn here is that Herman Melville spent ten pages making sperm jokes.

Also for god's sake, the first paragraph concerns getting so fed up you want to smack the hats off people's heads. If you read this in class and the teacher didn't point out humor they missed something important.

Re: OY!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Oh yeah, and the whole comedy bit of Ishmael tucking himself into bed only to discover that he's sharing it with a jolly cannibal.

[queerwolf]

I'm allowed to think Moby Dick was awful.

[chardmonster]

No. You are literally not allowed.

Report to the literature police at once.

[queerwolf]

They have a warrant out for me already

[chardmonster]

Your crimes are many

[riddian]

I read Moby Dick on my own in high school and thought it was terribly long-winded and confusing, didn't enjoy it at all.

Thanks to this thread, I think I'm going to give it another try. I wasn't nearly dirty-minded enough back then to pick up on sperm jokes.

[cat63]

Judging by the three or four chapters I managed to wade through, I'd say you were right the first time.

And I read and enjoy other writers of that era, so it's not that I'm a total Philistine.

[riddian]

I can forgive a lot for a good dirty joke! :P But if you have any recs, I might check 'em out too,

[cat63]

You could do a lot worse than Wilkie Collins, I reckon. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are probably his best known books, but there are plenty of others - which reminds me, I have a couple of them in my TBR pile....