THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SUCK DICK

Southeast from the Cape of fine Hope, the Pequod can make the first of nine sea-encounters, or "gams", with other ships: Ahab hails the Goney (Albatross) to check with whether or not they have seen the White Whale, although the trumpet through which her captain tries to speak falls in to the sea in advance of he can answer. Ishmael explains that th