Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast

Chapter 40: "Midnight: Forecastle"

August 27, 2020 Talia Lavin Season 1 Episode 26
Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast
Chapter 40: "Midnight: Forecastle"
Show Notes


A RADIO PLAY.

First, Talia talks to Akela Lacy, reporter at the Intercept, about the strange, drunken dream of this chapter; its racialized elements; and the feelings of Pip, the Black cabin-boy, about being alone on a ship of white madmen, threatening to knife each other.

In the second half, produced painstakingly by Ilana Weinstein, we have the fruits of much labor!! Fans of the show have sent in lines from the Belfast Sailor to the St. Jago's Sailor, and together they form a radio play of Midnight: Forecastle that is the most ambitious effort of the show's run. Thank you thank you thank you to all the fans who took the time to record lines! And the ending is a recollection of our painful moment, and its reckonings. 

"Oh! thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!"