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I'm sure with good reason, I'll report back once I've finished it. I'll be immensely surprised if, upon completion, I come away thinking "yeah, the novel couldn't have done without the Queequeg shaving scene", but I'm open to the possibility.
The scene is pretty much unimportant to the story, but the point of the scene (and many others like it) is that instead of the story being linear from start to end, much like life it meanders this way and that, giving the reader a better sense of what it was like to actually be the characters in the text.
On its own the scene is meaningless, but together with other scenes like it it forms a part of the soul of what Moby Dick is, and the novel as a whole would be poorer without these scenes.
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