what this isn’t about, but could be

what this isn’t about, but could be

a whale of a time

_Blubber_ and _flense_; _Moby Dick_; Vladimir Putin shooting a gray whale with a crossbow for “research purposes”; the forty-six rock carvings in South Korea dated 6000 BCE showing people hunting whales; the history of Basque whaling, which is documented as early as the twelfth century, and perhaps earlier, to the seventh century; cetologists; narwhal teeth mistaken for (or deliberately passed off as) unicorn horn; whale oil; corsets made of baleen; declining populations of whales due to hunting; Japan and whales; minke whale on menus in Reykjavik; the Icelandic Phallological Museum which displays (among other examples, including human) a four-foot sperm whale penis in formaldehyde; the animated narwhal clip that went viral on YouTube (http://extrememarine.org.uk/narwhals/introduction-2/); the bestiary; the Physiologus; Jonah; Leviathan; the monstrous aspidochelone; Bryant Austin’s astoundingly intimate photographs of whales (http://www.studiocosmos.com/limited_editions.html); whales mistaken for islands; Māori whale riders; compounds with _whale_ in them; a whale of a time.

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