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Feb. 17th, 2004 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateContinuing his discourse on property law and dead whales, Ishmael tells us about abandoned rotting whale carcasses which have died, apparently, of natural causes. Some are valuable. Some are not.
Mr Stubb cons a French whaler out of a valuable, albeit extremely stinky, rotting whale carcass. It's just chock-full of ambergris*. Ambergris is, apparently, the 'sperm' in 'sperm whale.'
Then there's this whole chapter where Ishamel describes the...oh God...the delights of 'squeezing sperm.' He really likes squeezing sperm. He likes the smell. He's in his happy place.
*Oh, look it up yourself.
Mr Stubb cons a French whaler out of a valuable, albeit extremely stinky, rotting whale carcass. It's just chock-full of ambergris*. Ambergris is, apparently, the 'sperm' in 'sperm whale.'
Then there's this whole chapter where Ishamel describes the...oh God...the delights of 'squeezing sperm.' He really likes squeezing sperm. He likes the smell. He's in his happy place.
*Oh, look it up yourself.
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\Am"ber*gris\, n. [F. ambre gris, i. e., gray amber; F. gris gray, which is of German origin: cf. OS. gr[^i]s, G. greis, gray-haired. See Amber.] A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212[deg] Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.
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Date: 2004-02-17 09:14 am (UTC)Perfume & pearls, how romantic it all is.
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Date: 2004-02-17 08:15 pm (UTC)Ah, romance!
Heh, heh, heh.
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Date: 2004-02-17 08:41 am (UTC)"So, um."
"Call me Ishy."
"All right then, uh. Ishy. So. Uh. What do you like to do?"
"Oh my, do I fancy squeezing sperm."
"Er."
"I love a good sperm squeeze, don't you?"
"Ah."
"I mean, the feel of sperm on your fingertips!"
"....check please!"
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Date: 2004-02-17 08:57 am (UTC)This was sorta like one of those ghastly previews for Fear Factor, only not so graphic. *g*
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Date: 2004-02-17 09:05 am (UTC)I know. I got to it and thought, oh Jesus, this is what she was going on about.
The worst part is, I really hate perfume, so it makes me totally ralphy without the single entendre.
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*rolls on the floor shrieking in childish glee*
There, I just gave you for free what Penguin Books had to pay Harold Bloom several thousand dollars to get.
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Date: 2004-02-17 09:19 am (UTC)*cries*
blow the man down etc
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee..."
Frigate Matilda, frigate Matilda...
Date: 2004-02-17 12:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-17 09:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-17 09:45 am (UTC)And Ishamel. Ick. Really. Ishy, dear, you need to get out more.
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Date: 2004-02-17 10:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-17 10:52 am (UTC)It smells...er, that good?
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Date: 2004-02-17 08:18 pm (UTC)::applauds::
Excellent!
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Date: 2004-02-17 10:57 am (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2004-02-17 11:14 am (UTC)Ah yes. Spunky fellow, isn't he?
Date: 2004-02-17 12:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-17 11:03 am (UTC)JSM
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Date: 2004-02-17 02:59 pm (UTC)