The 161st anniversary is special. And by special I mean it's extra special in that no one usually commemorates it because it's the 161st anniversary.
That doesn't dissuade Google, who wants you to know their Google doodlers are both highly literate and desperate for a reason to change the company's logo most any day. Today? Google celebrates the 161st anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville's Moby Dick--that famed American classic you always mean to get around to reading someday but won't.
So here's the Sparknote's version of Moby Dick so you'll know what to talk about around the water cooler today: There's a whale named Moby (Dick to his close friends), and at some point Patrick Stewart shows up as a fisherman reciting Shakespeare while trying to stab Moby out of vengeance for having a less fashionable bald head than he has.
It's all really complex, so I might have missed a few important facts. But that's the gist.
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