Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title role in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab's legs-and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped triumphantly, and flesh & blood whalers have claimed that nothing like him was ever harpooned before or since...
Nabokov said that it was always dangerous to try and relate real life and real faces to fiction, and that there was no connection with a real white whale and the one in the novel...
...whale has been created by Melville, as the whale has been created by God or by genes. Facts should not interfere with interpretation--let's keep them separate...
Morrison did not think that the whale's capture was in any way spectacular...
...whale was reported captured and killed by the French ship Anglo Norse. The crew took photographs of the beast to certify their catch, and according to the production manager of the whaling fleet of which the Anglo Norse was a member, this was the first albino sperm whale ever taken...