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Indeed, and this is my favorite random fact about whales in Moby Dick: "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the wh
by maw 13y ago
Indeed, and this is my favorite random fact about whales in Moby Dick: "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me."
- huxley 13y agoHaha ... true enough, though Ishmael is well established as an unreliable narrator. Here's my favourite fact: the white whale Moby Dick is based on a real-life white whale named Mocha Dick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_Dick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_Dick
- anigbrowl 13y agoDid not know that. I echo your advice to people to give the book another go if they haven't finished it. It is so worth it.
- fennecfoxen 13y agoI prefer Ishmael's method for finding water in the middle-of-nowhere American prairies (to wit: select a philosophy professor from your caravan and tell him to just wander around lost in thought for a few hours.) ... Ishmael is a nut. :b