Ok, this is it. I had to read Moby Dick for my grad school comps way back in 1992, and there were so many books on the list that I only had time to read a handful of key chapters from this. I loved it then and meant to pick up it and read it all the way through when I had time. And I guess it’s taken 30 years, and Hester Blum’s new edition, for me to do that. So far so good, excited to just read it slowly and enjoy all its capaciousness. Fingers crossed!