(March 25, 2021 at 3:09 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Now....this doesn't have anything to do with the appraisal of potential inference above....but....Moby Dick very much was a dangerous book in that it suggested that large and powerful animals who might remember more than the last 12 seconds are a severe risk to life and property - much more than the insurance assessments and outlays which supported the industry accounted for.
Whaling was dangerous...physically and economically.
It’s at least tangential to the topic - any book, irrespective of internal consistency, has the potential to teach us something. In the case of the Quran, we can learn what Mohammed and his followers believed. In the case of Melville’s novel, we can learn that sperm whales will, if given half a chance, fuck you up.
Boru
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