moby update

[phosfate]

Continuing 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.

Comments

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::nods brokenly::

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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[pentimento.livejournal.com]

Come on, what's the problem? Ishmael just really enjoys sperm. And he really likes seamen.

*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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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT FILTH! There's no need to mention H*r*ld Bl**m in this establishment.

*cries*

blow the man down etc

[pentimento.livejournal.com]

Arrr!!! Ann, you salty dog, you know you love it.

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee..."

Frigate Matilda, frigate Matilda...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*sporfle!*