CSM!!! XD Amé esto... xD QUEEQUEG is a pseudo-Maori harpooneer and a complete badass. His career choice alone would be enough to qualify him for the title (harpooneers have the job of jabbing whales with pointy objects until they or the whales die), but wait, there’s more! How did he become a harpooneer in the first place, you ask? Well he followed a whaling ship in his canoe (yeah, that’s right, one dude, one paddle, able to overtake a freaking ship), sank his canoe, climbed aboard, and was hanging on to the ship’s chains when the captain came out and threatened to chop his hands off if he didn’t let go. Did Queequeg let go? Heck no. The captain, impressed with Queequeg’s enormous balls, decided to let him aboard and teach him how to whale. Speaking of Queequeg’s whaling prowess, wanna hear how he got his job aboard the Pequod specifically? He harpooned a spot of tar on the waves in the harbor while standing on the edge of the ship. Hawkeye has nothing on this dude. He shaves his face with the head of his harpoon. This same harpoon, fully assembled, is used to spear his breakfast of steaks from across the table. He’s strong enough to carry a sea chest in a wheelbarrow slung over his back. He’s also strong enough to chop through an iron chain with his hatchet in two strokes. - Furthermore, his teeth are filed to points and he’s absolutely covered in tattoos, though that’s par for the course considering the culture he came from. Over the course of the book, he leaps into the ocean to save no fewer than two people from drowning; the first is a man he tossed into the air for insulting him but rescued anyway, and the second, he cut out of the submerged, decapitated head of a whale with a sword. Part of his job involves butchering whale carcasses in the water while surrounded by sharks in a feeding frenzy. Does he spear the sharks? No. Does he kick the sharks? No. He gently nudges them aside with his bare feet and gets on with his work. And finally: he cuddles. Yes, you heard me, he cuddles. Like a whole bunch. He’s basically Herman Melville’s vision of the ideal boyfriend.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:36:13 +0000
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