Watergate Nixon; Consider This...: consider the whale

i have been reading MOBY-DICK lately. things to consider: Herman Melville loves his metaphors. Ishmael probably isn't real. Ahab is a motherfucker. "Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all around; it was Moby-Dick that dismasted me; Moby-Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye! Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me fore ever and a day! Aye, aye! And I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of the land, and over all sides of the earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out. What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave." that quote is proof that Ahab is a motherfucker.

in a peculiar chapter titled CISTERN AND BUCKETS, Tashtego falls into a decapitated sperm whale head hanging on the side of the ship, the Pequod. this head is 20-30 feet in length. "Poor Tashtego-like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into the great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!" Daggoo steps into a bucket and is quickly lifted by way of a pulley-system from the deck to the top of the whale's head. he grabs onto one of the two cables holding the whale in place. one of the cables snaps; then the whale's head falls into the ocean. Queequeg, the harpooner badass that he is, dives after the whale head and, with sword in hand, cuts gills into its side. he reaches into the whale and pulls Tashtego out by his head. Ishmael pauses to take the time to consider the concept of being buried alive inside of a decapitated whale head that sinks to the ocean floor. what do you make of this insanity? a dead sperm whale pulsating because a man is trapped inside and trying to get out.