“Twitter is an innovative way for us to share this special event with a global audience,” museum president Stephen C. White said. “Nowhere else does ‘Moby-Dick’ come alive the way it does on the decks of the Morgan, the sole surviving ship of the fleet that inspired Melville.”
Oh, my. I can't believe this. It's a marathon reading of all 135 chapters. And they've done this for 26 straight years now!
And it only takes one solid day, from noon to noon, July 31-August 1.
Wow. Do they do this to any other book? I don't even know how to search for something like that. Are there any other books out there that are annually read in their entirety? The only ones I think could be possibilities are ones like Dickens' A Christmas Carol or other seasonal, and short!, ones.
I know one of the Baldwins read excerpts of Moby Dick within the past year. That doesn't count. Entirety.
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