Editor’s Note: This is a letter The Dial received from an alumnus in response to the Moby Dick editorial published in our October issue. To The Editors of The Dial & The Faculty of the Department...

Moby Dick is contradictory, convoluted, and, at times, mind-numbingly boring. Each night that I sat down to read my thirty pages, I felt another part of my brain go numb - every whale fact I learned evaporated...