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queen-susans-revenge · 3 years ago

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So as I have recently learned from Moby Dick, ambergris is produced only by sperm whales, generally when they have something of a tummyache. It seems to help ease hard/sharp things, like the beaks of giant squid, through their digestive tract.

"By some ambergris is supposed to be the cause, and by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale. How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks."

Mr. Melville, sir.

#moby dick #this book gets frisky about two thirds of the way through #first I learned that sperm whales fuck face to face #and now I'm getting jokes about explosive whale diarrhea #this humorous interlude is a sudden turn #before that it was all Palpable Sense of Impending Doom #I think this book should be considered part of the horror genre in fact #like we are assured REPEATEDLY that the Pequod will come to a terrible end #and the narrative tension revolves around knowing the doomed crew is rushing to a grisly fate #but also there's whale poop jokes

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