the ecstatic truth

Queequeg was always my favorite. had Starbucks been named Queequegs it would have been so much better / failed to expand due to being saddled with an unmarketable name. 

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leiris:

One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick by Matt Kish: MOBY-DICK, Page 020

via Cartophilia: Maps and Map Memorabilia - Queequeg

from the original post: “In Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick,Captain Ahab sets himself on a quest to find and kill the White Whale. His obsession leads to his own destruction and the death of nearly all his crew. Matt Kish also has a quest. Fortunately, this one is likely to be less destructive to himself and his colleagues. (Which is a good thing, as we both work at the same library!) He has set out to create an original piece of art, an illustration on found paper, for each page of this monumental tome.On page 20, we are introduced to the mysterious Queequeg. Initially, this harpooner from a fictional South Pacific island causes much consternation to our hero, Ishmael. Soon, however, they become fast friends.

Matt has rendered his Queequeg on a page from a discarded book that includes a map of some islands of the South Pacific and South China Sea.”