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...don’t mean that you ate too much during intersession. But theses, like baby whales, have a very long gestation term. And everyone knows that you’ve been sitting on the nest all year long. So you start to feel that whatever comes out in the end sure as hell better be a whale. The prospect of anything less seems disastrous, and it paralyzes your capacity for work...
That got me to thinking that many of you, too, might have pregnant whale syndrome...
Recent Capture of White Whale Fails to Mar Melville’s Meaning...
...interpretation of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick,” with all its symbolic levels, remains unchanged despite the fact that a white whale has been captured off the coast of Peru, two university professors stated yesterday...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...