A collision with immensity awaits: the 2026 Moby-Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Into snowy New Bedford, into the Whaling Museum, into the room where they keep the Lagoda, the museum’s half-scale model of a whaling bark. Melville would have enjoyed the New Bedford Whaling Museum. “This book, boy …”According to the reading’s organizers, more than 3,000 people attended this year’s Moby-Dick Marathon. Prediction: Next year, if the Whaling Museum can handle it, it’ll be 5,000.