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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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p. 217-8 from "Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales": "Though elephants have stood for their full-lengths, the living Leviathan has never yet fairly floated himself for his portrait. The living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in unfathomable waters...So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his contour, is by going a whaling yourself."
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