moby dick. wonderful, yes. why moby dick? i have to say -- i told a colleague of mine who is an american renaissance expert that i was teaching the seven deadly sins class and that i was teaching moby dick. he said, wonderful -- pride. [laughter] i think there is some pride going on here. some dangerous, reckless pride. there are other sense going on like lust -- sins going on like lust. i don't want to insist that it is the only thing we're going to hear, but for now i am doing the heavy lifting on wrath. i think i'm in at least good company -- a french philosopher from the 20th century thought about moby dick as an -- stacy, the mind? >> there is an idea of gladness and of the whale hunt. >> this is a novel of hatred. it is many other things. it is not only that, but it is also that. so, what i -- why i chose moby dick. i just wanted to make sure you read moby dick. it will be a book that you take with you for the rest of your life. if not, you can come back and we can talk about it. also because i think there is hatred, an

moby dick. wonderful, yes. why moby dick? i have to say -- i told a colleague of mine who is an former professor at harvard, a melville and american renaissance expert. i told him that i was teaching a seven deadly sins class and i was teaching moby dick. and he said wonderful, pride. [laughter] -- let's just put it this way, i think there is some pride going on here. some dangerous pride, some reckless pride. i don't want moby dick to be motto vocal. there are other sins going on here like lust. we have to think about it. i don't want to insist that is the only thing we are going to hear. but for now, i'm making you do the heavy lifting on wrath. i think i'm in good company for making a choice. pulsar -- john paul rte thought it was an imposing monuments. can i have someone read it? bursts beneath the thrust of the cancer. there is an idea of hatred just as there is an idea of whiteness and of the whale hunt. it involves the whole man in the whole human conditions. >> this is a novel of hatred. it is many other things. it is

in 1926, a 100-minute long silent film, the seabees, based on moby dick, starring john barrymore wasade. a huge commercial success. ahab, oddly, lives in this version. as a companion piece, part prequel and part sequel to the incredible story you'll be seeing tonight, i want to show you a second clip from the film my colleagues and i worked on called "into the deep." no story in the anales of american history goes further out or deeper in in the ways i've been trying to describe than the story of american whaling and the extraordinary story of the essex and herman melville. it's a history of the american whaling and whaling's most notorious catastrophe and what herman melville made of it. this scene picks up in 1841, 20 years after the essex went down whether young herman melville first went to sea. can we roll the second clip? ♪ >> in the waning days of december 1840, a restless, 21 year old, one-time schoolteacher from upstate new york arrived in new bedford, looking for work on a whale ship. on december 25th, he went on board a whale ship and nine days later set sail for the south

i realized i wasn't reading moby dick. i was reading eat pray love. been so few whales. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] back to late night everybody. our next guest is a very funny writer and director behind such brothers" and "talladega nights." y award nominations for best adapted screenplay as well best directing for his latest film "the big short" which is in theaters now.ook. >> hi lawrence, we have no bility to identify macroeconomic trends. tell me that? why? anyone can see that there's a real estate bubble. >> actually. a bubble. that's what makes it a bubble. >> that's dumb lawrence. there's always markers.upled since 2000. it's flat but --ing that means they're debt not assents. >> so mike burry guy who gets his hair cut at super cuts and shoes knows more than alan greenspan and hank paulson. >> dr. mike burry, yes he does. >> seth: please welcome to the show adam mc [ applause ] >> seth: how are you? >> i'm good. seth: i'm so happy you're here. >> it's odd to see fred armisen playing base in your band.reall

i realized i wasn't reading moby dick. i was reading eat pray love. [ laughter ] which explains why there had been so few whales. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: welcome back to late night everybody. our next guest is a very funny writer and director behind such films as "anchorman," "step brothers" and "talladega nights." he has received academy award nominations for best adapted screenplay as well best directing for his latest film "the big short" which is in theaters now. let's take a look. >> hi lawrence, we have no confidence in your ability to identify macroeconomic trends. >> you flew here to tell me that? why? anyone can see that there's a real estate bubble. no one can see a bubble. that's what makes it a bubble. >> that's dumb lawrence. there's always markers. mortgage fraud quintupled since average take home pay. it's flat but -- home prices are soaring that means they're debt not assents. >> so mike burry guy who gets his hair cut at super cuts and doesn't wear shoes knows more than alan greenspan

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wisconsinity of professor jennifer rose megan focuses on moby dick and talks about how authors such astury moral code. her class is a little over an hour. >> thank you and welcome to our lecture. nature as we know her is no saint. trial in tumult in melville's america. titles, that we like and to put some thought in the titles we give our paper. that is because a title announces what is at stake for a

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