My Friend Raj Persuades Me That Moby-Dick Is Already in My Life
by Amy Chu
Amy Chu noticed a friend at the library reading a good-looking copy of Moby-Dick... the same book, over weeks. So when Moby-Dick Week began, she decided to talk to him about the book and what it meant to him. The result is a freewheeling conversation engaging with this work from ground zero. For example, Raj on the connection between Ishmael and Queequeg:
...this strange Polynesian man named Queequeg. And Queequeg is full of tattoos and it's just so like, yeah, this is like the most exotic possible person but there's, human connection, or you know, it's like there's enormous game recognize game. They sleep together and they’re just talking and smoking for a bunch of nights.