“'Reading Moby-Dick in one sitting connects you with the commitment of spending three years stuck on a whaling boat,' said Russell. 'If we were doing a marathon for Pride and Prejudice, we’d be spending a lot of time reading about people going to each other’s houses. It’s just not the same.'
Sean Dotson, on the other hand, came into contact with Moby-Dick 10 years ago during an intensive three-week study at Northeastern Illinois University. 'It was one of those very rare interactions with art that you might have two or three times in your life, where it feels like the whole world has opened up to you in this new way,' he said, brandishing the same copy he once studied. The book was brutalized with annotations, passages underlined, words circled, and illegible notes scribbled in the margins."
~ Luke Winkie
"A Whale of a Time: I survived a 24-hour marathon reading of Moby-Dick. It hurt so good."
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/01/moby-dick-whale-book-ship-massachusetts-captain-ahab.html
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