whaling quotes

He understood†Walt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.

- David John Lodge
  Changing Places, ch.5.

'Scientific whaling'isliketheprostitutionoftheprofession: using the name of science fora totally bogus purpose.

- Hal Whitehead
  New Scientist, May.